Practice on creating a common reference concrete for round robin testing programmes based on the experience from cost action tu1404

Marijana Serdar, Stéphanie Staquet, Dirk Schlicke, Emmanuel Roziere, Miguel Azenha, Sreejith Nanukuttan, Ivan Gabrijel, Özlem Cizer, Violeta Bokan-Bosiljkov, Aljosa Sajna

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Abstract

Round Robin Testing (RRT) is a well-known method for assessing the reproducibility of a test or verification of a new test procedure of almost any kind. In the EU funded network COST Action TU1404 “Towards the next generation of standards for service life of cement-based materials and structures”, an Extended Round Robin Testing program (RRT +) was planned as a fundamental tool to obtain input data for a range of concrete properties and validate non-standardised testing techniques. In this paper, detailed information on the planning, conduction and analysis of Phase 1 of the RRT + is presented. The aim of Phase 1 was to define and confirm the best practice for creating a comparable reference concrete mix for RRT programmes. With a total of 45 laboratories from Europe, Japan and Canada, RRT + was one of the most extensive round robin testing programmes targeting cement-based materials.

Original languageEnglish
Article number118542
JournalConstruction and Building Materials
Volume247
Issue number247
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jun 2020

Keywords

  • Air content
  • Cement-based materials
  • Compressive strength
  • Concrete temperature
  • Fresh density
  • Round robin testing
  • Slump
  • Statistical analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Materials Science(all)
  • Building and Construction
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

Fields of Expertise

  • Sustainable Systems

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