Novel test setup for the quantification of the size effect in spalling tests

Within a current research project which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) the influence of the size and the geometry of specimens on the spalling result in fire tests is going to be investigated at Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und -prufung (BAM). This paper describes some preliminary results and a newly developed test setup. The novel setup enables the efficient and precise quantification of spalling by using a special photogrammetric measurement system.