Identification of Stress-Slip Law for Bar or Fiber Pullout by Size Effect Tests

Test results on the size effect in the pullout strength of reinforcing bars embedded in concrete are presented. Attention is focused on failures due solely to interface slip, with no cracking in the surrounding concrete. This type of failure is achieved by using smooth round bars and a sufficiently large ratio of bar diameter to embedment length. Elimination of cracking in the surrounding concrete makes it possible to study the characteristics of the interfacial shear fracture between steel and concrete. The results of tests of geometrically similar specimens show that interfacial shear fracture causes a size effect on the nominal strength in pullout. The size effect is found to be transitional between plastic failure (the current approach of concrete design codes, for which there is no size effect) and linear elastic fracture mechanics (for which the size effect is the maximum possible). This transitional size effect can be approximately described by the size effect law proposed by Bažant in 1984 for qua...

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