GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 Shift 2 Solved Paper

Question : 22 of 65

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The maximum applied load on a cylindrical concrete specimen of diameter

150 {mm}

and length

300 {mm}

tested as per the split tensile strength test guidelines of IS

5816: 1999

157 {kN}

. The split tensile strength (in

{MPa}

, round off to one decimal place) of the specimen is

Solution:

Split tensile strength

=\;{2 P}/{π L D}=\;{(2 × 157 × 10^{3})}/{(π × 300 × 150)}=2.22 {N} {/} {mm}^{2}

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