Final Setting Judgment and Safety Evaluation of Mass Concrete Based on Strain Monitoring

A judgment method of the final setting time of mass concrete based on strain monitoring and the selection criterion of the starting point of effective deformation are proposed, and the safety of the concrete structure is evaluated based on this. Firstly, the strain monitoring theory of mass concrete is analyzed to clarify the temperature effect component and monitoring mechanism of an early strain of concrete. Then, taking the mass concrete plate of an engineering project as the research object combined with the mechanical analysis, the early strain monitoring data are segmented, and the relationship between the strain response and the temperature in different stages is fitted based on robust regression, so as to explore the correlation between strain and temperature in each stage and better explain the setting process of the concrete structure. Finally, taking the final setting time as the starting point of the effective strain, the safety of the concrete structure is further evaluated. The results show that there is a clear linear relationship between the strain response and temperature, and a high negative correlation between strain and temperature after the final setting. The time point when the frequency modulus corresponding to the strain enters a steady change and decreases with the increase of temperature is taken as the final setting time, which conforms to the concrete condensation mechanism and the temperature effect of early strain monitoring.