Practice on creating a common reference concrete for "Round Robin Testing" programmes based on the experience from COST Action TU1404

Serdar, Marijana (author), Staquet, Stéphanie (author), Schlicke, Dirk (author), Rozière, Emmanuel (author), Azenha, Miguel (author), Nanukuttan, Sreejith (author), Gabrijel, Ivan (author), Cizer, Özlem (author), Bokan-Bosiljkov, Violeta (author), Šajna, Aljoša (author)

"Round Robin Testing" (RRT) is a well-known method for assessing the reproducibility of a test or verification of a new test procedure of almost any kind. In the EU funded network COST Action TU1404 Towards the next generation of standards for service life of cement-based materials and structures, an Extended "Round Robin Testing" program (RRT+) was planned as a fundamental tool to obtain input data for a range of concrete properties and validate non-standardised testing techniques. In this paper, detailed information on the planning, conduction and analysis of Phase 1 of the RRT+ is presented. The aim of Phase 1 was to define and confirm the best practice for creating a comparable reference concrete mix for RRT programmes. With a total of 45 laboratories from Europe, Japan and Canada, RRT+ was one of the most extensive round robin testing programmes targeting cement-based materials.

• Language: English
• Keywords: laboratory tests, "Round Robin Testing", cement-based materials, compressive strength, slump, air content, concrete temperature, fresh density, statistical analysis
• Work type: Scientific work
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 1-12
• Numbering: Letn. 247, 118542
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-116745
• UDC: 691
• ISSN on article: 0950-0618
• DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.118542
• COBISS.SI-ID: 9108577
• Publication date in RUL: 08.06.2020

SERDAR, Marijana, STAQUET, Stéphanie, SCHLICKE, Dirk, ROZIÈRE, Emmanuel, AZENHA, Miguel, NANUKUTTAN, Sreejith, GABRIJEL, Ivan, CIZER, Özlem, BOKAN-BOSILJKOV, Violeta and ŠAJNA, Aljoša, 2020, Practice on creating a common reference concrete for “Round Robin Testing” programmes based on the experience from COST Action TU1404. Construction & building materials [online]. 2020. Vol. 247, no. 118542, p. 1–12. [Accessed 1 April 2025]. DOI 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.118542. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.118542

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Construction & building materials
• Shortened title: Constr. build. mater.
• Publisher: Scientific & Technical Press
• ISSN: 0950-0618
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25270784

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 08.06.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: laboratorijske preiskave, krožni testi, cementni kompoziti, tlačna trdnost, posed, delež zraka, temperatura betona, statistična analiza

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: COST Action TU1404