DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNILOGY, ROURKELA

CE-378 : Structural Engineering Laboratory

TITLE OF THE EXPERIMENT: Test on high strength deformed steel reinforcement bar

(a) Tensile test as per IS 1786:1985.

NAME: Rashmiranja Si

ROLL NUMBER: 716CE3008

DATE OF EXPERIMENT: 05-02-2019

DATE OF REPORT: 12-02-2019

PURPOSE OF THE TEST: Determination of tensile strength, 0.2% proof stress and percentage

elongation of high strength deformed steel reinforcement bar using universal testing machine

as per IS 1786:1985.

RESULTS:

Specimen-1: Length=495mm, Weight= 0.740kg

Specimen-2: Length=470mm, Weight= 0.740kg

Specimen-3: Length=500mm, Weight= 0.740kg

Table-1 (For calculation of % elongation and lateral strain, computed manually)

Initial Final Initial Final

diameter Diameter Lateral gauge gauge Elongation Percentage
Specimen
(D0) (D1) Strain length length (L1-L0) Elongation
(In mm) (in mm) (D0-D1)/D0 (L0) (L1) (In mm) (in %)
(in mm) (In mm)
Bar-1 16 13 0.19 80 91 11 13.75

Bar-2 16 13 0.19 80 89 9 11.25

Bar-3 16 12 0.25 80 87.5 7.5 9.38

Average 16 12.67 0.21 80 89.17 9.17 11.45

Table-2 (Results observed directly from monitor connected to universal testing machine).

Specimen Bar-1 Bar-2 Bar-3 Average

0.2% proof
stress
0.610 0.486 0.683 0.578
(KN/mm2)
Yield stress
(KN/mm2)
0.613 0.486 0.640 0.579

Ultimate stress
(KN/mm2) 0.738 0.616 0.719 0.691

Ultimate
breaking load 148.45 124.00 144.65 139.03
(KN/mm2)

Displacement at
maximum load 32.14 51.50 31.82 38.48
(mm)
Young’s
modulus 210.691 187.064 164.672 187.475
(KN/mm2)
Reduction in 33.984 33.984 33.984 33.984
area (%)
Yielding
stress/Ultimate
0.830 0.788 0.890 0.836
tensile stress
ratio

Failure type: Cup and cone

GRAPHS:

For specimen-1

 Load vs extension

 Stress vs strain
  Load vs displacement

For specimen-2

 Load vs extension
 Stress vs strain

 Load vs displacement
For specimen-3

 Load vs extension

 Stress vs strain
  Load vs displacement

DISCUSSION:

 The failure type is cup and cone hence specimens are made up off ductile material

 From stress vs strain graphs of all 3 specimens it is found that, after yield stress there is

a significant amount of increase in strain with a negligible amount of increase in stress.

That’s why for simplicity we can idealize the graph by making stress constant after

applied stress reached at yield stress.

 The test specimens are of grade Fe 415, that means ultimate stress according to code is

415N/mm2. But the machine showing the ultimate load as 719KN/mm2 for specimen-3.

This show the extent of safety factor used by code.

 Due to high carbon content of fe415 specimen, the perfect yield point is not obtained in

stress vs strain graph. Hence yield stress is obtained by taking 0.2% proof stress.
 The ratio of yield stress and ultimate tensile stress give us idea about the reserve

strength of reinforcement bar and this strength is partially utilized in limit state method

of design.

 For specimen-1 the yield stress is 0.613KN/mm2 and ultimate break stress is

148.45KN/mm2. The gap between the yield stress value and ultimate break stress

indicate the amount of deformation undergone by the specimen before failure. This

property of high strength steel deformed bar give a safety warning before failure.