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Ductal Properties
An Ultra-high Performance Material
Applications
for Resistance to Blasts
Blast Trials at Woomera
kg
Fibres
700 Cement Typical
Composition Ductal FM
Silica fume of Material HT Steel
Fine quartz Ductal FM Tensile Strength 2,000 MPa
COMPRESSION TESTS Cylinders 100mm dia x 200mm COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH after Heat Treatment
200
180
160
140
Stress MPa
923
1845
2768
3690
4613
5535
6458
7380
8303
9225
10148
11070
Micro Strain
1
FLEXURE TESTS prisms 100mm x 100mm x 500mm FLEXURAL STRENGTH after Heat Treatment
B e n d in g S tre s s M P a
35 Characteristic for design
30 M.O.R. fcf min = 15 MPa
25
20
15
10
5 Typical concrete
0
0 2 4 6 8
Deflection mm
35
30 Microporosity (>10µm) < 1% 10 to 30 times lower
Flexural toughness of Ductal
25 is greater than 200 times Permeability (air) 2.5 x 10^-18 sqm 50 times lower
that of conventional, non-
20 fiber reinforced concrete Water absorption < 0.2 kg/sqm 50 times lower
15 Fiber reinforced
10 concrete Chloride ions diffusion 0.02 x 10^-12 sqm/s 50 times lower
5 Plain concrete Electrical resistance 1.13 x 10^3 kΩ.cm 12 to 17 times greater
0 (excl. fibre)
Electrical resistance 137 kΩ.cm 1.5 to 2 times greater
0 2 4 6 8 (incl. fibre)
Abrasion resistance 1.3 2 to 3 times greater
Deflection mm coefficient
APPLICATIONS
2
Seoul footbridge - Lifting
Ductal beams
Load test of 25mm thick Ductal permanent formwork slab Load test of 25mm thick Ductal permanent formwork slab
Load = 960 kg = 6.6 kPa
Load = 2,560 kg = 17.7 kPa
130 0m
m clear 25mm
span
25mm
3
BLAST 1
Blast Tests at Woomera, May 2004 3 Ductal panels
¾ 2
¾ 2 blasts
blasts of
of 55 tonnes
tonnes of
of of
of Hexolite
Hexolite (60/40
(60/40 RDX/TNT),
RDX/TNT),
equivalent
equivalent to
to 6
6 tonnes
tonnes of
of TNT
TNT
75mm stressed at 40m
100mm stressed at 40m
¾ Testing
¾ Testing of
of 2
2 types
types of
of Ductal
Ductal panels
panels at
at 3
3 distances
distances
100mm stressed at 30m
¾ Panel
¾ Panel size
size 2m
2m xx 1m
1m xx 100,75
100,75 &
& 50mm
50mm
¾ Span
¾ Span 2m
2m one
one way
way
¾ Panels
¾ Panels Type
Type 1
1-- pretensioned
pretensioned -
- at
at 30m,
30m, 40m
40m and
and 50m
50m
¾ Panels
¾ Panels Type
Type 2
2-- plain
plain -
- at
at 40m
40m and
and 50m
50m
¾ Design
¾ Design pressure
pressure -- 2000kPa
2000kPa at
at 30m,
30m, 800kPa
800kPa at
at 40m,
40m, 420kPa
420kPa at
at
50m,
50m, (reflective
(reflective pressure)
pressure)
¾ Test
¾ Test Measures
Measures actual
actual blast
blast pressure
pressure and
and panel
panel deflections
deflections
Typical Ductal
panel 2m x 1m
4
BLAST 1 - panels at 40m ready for blast test BLAST 1 - 100mm stressed at 30m,
ready for blast test
5 tonne of hexolite
explosives, equivalent Observation point 3km from blast
to 6 tonne of TNT
Blast Tests at
Woomera
May 2004
5
BLAST 1
100mm RC at 30m
75mm stressed at 40m
100mm stressed at 40m
100mm stressed at 30m
Crater caused by
BLAST 1
6
BLAST 1 - 75mm BLAST 1 - 75mm
stressed at 40m stressed at 40m
BLAST 2
4 Ductal panels
BLAST 2 - 75mm
stressed at 30m
Back face -
fractured, no spalling 50mm plain at 50m 50mm stressed at 50m
BLAST 2
7
BLAST 2 - 50mm stressed at 50m
Final position on datum
Intact with shallow crack,
no spalling or fragmentation
Reinf.concrete magazine at 20m - 250mm walls
Brian Cavill
VSL Australia Pty Ltd
Tel : 02 9484 5944 email : bcavill@vslsyd.aust.com