NANO-TESTS OF CONCRETE SAMPLES WITH AND WITHOUT NANO-TUBES

Abstract

The concrete samples originate from fracture mechanics tests performed on February 19, 2012, at the Department of Geo-Engineering and Building Materials of the Izhevsk State Technical University.

After the fracture mechanics tests three types of small specimens (marked with CNT, C3 and control sample) have been prepared and tested by means of Nano-Indentation (NI) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), at the Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures and Institute of Automation and Control, respectively, of Vienna University of Technology.