ABSTRACT

ThestandardspecificationofNEFMACisshowninTable3.3.Inthis table,'max.load'istheguaranteedvalue.Furtherinformationisgivenin [5].ExamplesoftensiletestresultsofNEFMACareshowninFigure3.5.

Thetensiletestingmethodsandthecompressivetestingmethodfor NEFMACareshowninFigures3.6and3.7respectively.Fortensile testing,threegriptypesareadopted.Withanygriptype,thetensiletest goeswellandthetensilestrengthofNEFMACisevaluatedcorrectly.For compressivetesting,themethodofconfiningthebucklingofNEFMAC byconcreteblocksisadopted.