Research Article

Experimental Evaluation of Bond Strength between Setting Retarder Added Concrete and Normal Concrete

Table 2

Summary of test result on the 7th day.

Specimen codeRoughnessSetting retarder (%) (kN) (mm)Failure mode

R_N_81247.97.7Compressive failure
R_N_161199.27.3Compressive failure
R_N_241140.46.5Bond failure
R_N_721100.64.4Bond failure
R_B_8Brushing1254.79.2Compressive failure
R_B_16Brushing1237.79.8Compressive failure
R_B_24Brushing1223.09.1Bond failure
R_B_72Brushing1107.06.1Bond failure
N_N_8152.16.9Bond failure
N_N_16108.97.2Bond failure
N_C_16Chipping156.36.8Bond failure

maximum load; maximum displacement.