Based on dynamic direct tensile tests, splitting tests and spalling tests, it is found that the experimental tensile strength of concrete-like materials greatly increases with loading-rate. This kind of dynamic tensile strength enhancement may be caused by the combination influence of the inertia effect, real rate effect and end friction effect (here the end friction effect is only existed in splitting and spalling tests). To further investigate the influence degree of real rate effect for concrete-like materials in dynamic tensile tests, this paper conducts systematically dynamic tensile experiments, viz. dynamic direct tensile tests, splitting tests and spalling tests. At the same time, numerical dynamic tensile tests are employed to analyze the mechanical characteristics of concrete-like materials. A hydrostatic pressure dependent model, the DruckerPrager constitutive model, is used for concrete-like material specimens, which can consider the influence of inertia effect. In the numerical model, the specimen is set to be rate-independent, thus the predicted dynamic tensile strength of specimens is free of the real rate effect. The end friction effect is also taken into account in the numerical analysis of dynamic splitting and spalling tests. It is found that the dynamic tensile strength of concrete-like materials in numerical simulations does not varies obviously with the loading-rate, indicating that the inertia effect and end friction effect have little contributions to the dynamic tensile strength enhancement of concrete-like materials. Therefore, the real rate effect dominates the dynamic tensile strength enhancement of concretelike materials in laboratory tests, but the inertia effect and end friction effect do not. Keywords Real rate effect, tensile strength, concrete-like materials, experimental and numerical research researchers. The dynamic behavior of concrete-like materials is usually studied by laboratory such as split Hopkinson tension bar (SHTB) or split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB). Many experimental results show that the dynamic strength of concrete-like materials subjected to impact loading increases apparently with the loading-rate. The influence of the loading-rate or strain-rate on the dynamic strength enhancement of concrete-like materials obtained from experiments is called as the apparent rate effect. The dynamic performance of mortar under compressive and tensile loading was studied by Yang et al. (2015) based on splitting tests, and the results show that mortar is of rate sensitive. Cai et al. (2015) systematically conducted quasi-static and dynamic compressive tests to analyze the rate effect of granite, and numerical simulation method is employed to determine the true rate effect of granite through the uncoupled assumption of the rate effect, lateral inertia and end friction effect in SHPB tests. Lu et al. (2014) investigated the dynamic compressive behavior of recycled aggregate concrete specimens prepared with five different amount of recycled coarse aggregate [i.e. 0, 25...