| Abstract: | Shotcrete — a special Concrete Analysis of Material Behaviour and Tests Shotcrete is one of the main support measures when doing excavational works according to the “New Austrian Tunnelling Method” (NATM). The peculiarity of a support made of shotcrete is that the young shotcrete, which runs through the hydration process, is subjected to rather large constraints. The estimation of the load bearing capability of shotcrete in comparison to the actual degree of loading needs the knowledge about its time dependent strength and the actual stress state. The problematic stress monitoring using hydraulic stress cells is replaced by the introduction of a time‐dependent stress — strain relationship and displacement resp. strain monitoring. This approach enables the calculation of the actual stresses via the strains which are derived from the monitoring data. |
