Effect of freeze and thaw cycle on the mechanical properties of engineered cementitious composites with un-oiled fibers containing liquid and solid polymers

2022 ◽  
pp. 002199832110386
Author(s):  
Hadi Azadmanesh ◽  
Seyed Amir Hossein Hashemi ◽  
Seyed Hooman Ghasemi
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Styrene Butadiene Rubber ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Flexural Properties ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composites ◽  
Freeze And Thaw ◽  
Thaw Cycle

Nowadays, the application of the engineered cementitious composites(ECC) is expected to highly develop. Due to the lack of access to oiled- polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers in many parts of the world, the implementation of the ECC has contained many difficulties. In this study, to increase the mechanical properties of ECC with the use of un-oiled PVA fibers, the polymers of styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) were taken into account to resolve the abovementioned issue. Herein, also in order to enhance the tensile and flexural properties of ECC, the cement was replaced by polymers. Accordingly, a total of 7 mix designs were planned to conduct the proposed tests. The compressive strength, uniaxial tensile strength, and three-point bending tests were performed on the ECC at their 28-day age with consideration of the freeze and thaw cycle. The results of this research illustrated that the use of polymers can enhance the tensile and flexural properties of the ECC with un-oiled PVA fibers. The tensile strain in this study increased by more than 3% after the application of the polymers. Furthermore, the compressive strength increased by more than 47 MPa, and the deflection at the mid-span reached more than 9 mm in the bending test. However, the results showed that the use of polymers was effective on the freeze and thaw cycle and almost preserved the mechanical properties of the ECC. SBR latex has higher compatibility with the ECC in comparison with EVA powder.

scholarly journals Mechanical Properties and Carbonation Durability of Engineered Cementitious Composites Reinforced by Polypropylene and Hydrophilic Polyvinyl Alcohol Fibers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Chenglong yin ◽  
Fuquan Ma ◽  
Zhiyi Huang
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Polyvinyl Alcohol ◽  
Bending Strength ◽  
Impact Resistance ◽  
Steel Corrosion ◽  
Fiber Content ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composites

Herein, the mechanical properties and carbonation durability of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) were studied. For cost-efficient utilization of ECC materials, polypropylene (PP) and hydrophilic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers were employed to cast different types of specimens. The compressive strength, Poisson’s ratio, strength-deflection curves, cracking/post-cracking strength, impact index, and tensile strain-stress curves of the two types of ECC materials, with different fiber contents of 0 vol%, 1 vol%, 1.5 vol% and 2 vol%, were investigated by conducting compressive tests, four-point bending tests, drop weight tests, and uniaxial tensile tests. In addition, the matrix microstructure and failure morphology of the fiber in the ECC materials were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis. Furthermore, carbonation test and steel corrosion after carbonization were employed to study durability resistance. The results indicated that for both PP fiber- and hydrophilic PVA fiber-reinforced ECCs, the compressive strength first increases and then decreases as fiber content increases from 0 vol% to 2 vol% and reaches the maximum at 1 vol% fiber content. The bending strength, deformation capacity, and impact resistance show significant improvement with increasing fiber contents. The ECC material reinforced with 2 vol% PP fiber shows superior carbonized durability with maximum carbonation depth of only 0.8 mm.

Evaluation of the Design Mix Proportion on Mechanical Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites

2018 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
pp. 589-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Siong Wee ◽  
Oh Chai Lian ◽  
Mohd Raizamzamani Md Zain
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Fiber Content ◽  
Flexural Behavior ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Sand Content ◽  
Flexural Behaviour ◽  
Normal Concrete ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composites

This paper investigates the mechanical properties of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) in terms of compressive strength and flexural behaviour. A new version of ECC made of cement, ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS), local sand, polypropylene (PP) fibers, water and superplasticizer (SP) was employed in this study. Few series of ECC mixtures were designed, cast, and tested in compression and flexural after 28 days of curing. The effect of the fiber content and sand content were studied in different cement-GGBS combination. Compression test results indicated that all ECC mixtures obtained at least 1.8 times compressive strength compared to normal concrete. They also demonstrated more ductile flexural behavior compared to normal concrete from three-point bending test. Increasing fiber content from 1.5% to 2.0% and 2.5% has negative effect on compressive strength but significantly improved modulus of toughness of ECC mixtures. The compressive strength of ECC was reduced when the sand to binder ratio adjusted to 0.4 and 0.6. The flexural behaviour of ECC was slightly improved with the increasing of sand content.

Mechanical Properties of Modified Engineered Cementitious Composites (MECC) Incorporating Marble Dust

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1140-1146
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Bottom Surface ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Strength Development ◽  
Shape Effect ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composites ◽  
Flexure Strength ◽  
Marble Dust

Engineered cementitious composites (ECC) are a type of high-performance fiber reinforced cementitious composite. ECC has different applications in the construction field due to its inherent characteristics of high tensile strain. The main concern regarding ECC is its high cost. The content of cement is high contributing to its cost. In this research work, the cement in ECC is replaced with marble dust and its mechanical properties such as compressive strength and flexure strength have been assessed. For this purpose, both cubes and cylinders were tested at different test ages for finding the compressive strength development with time and observe the shape effect of specimens on the compressive strength of ECC mixes. Beam members were tested for finding the flexure strength of ECC mixes. Deflection gauge was also installed at the mid span on the bottom surface of the beams to find the maximum mid span deflection before failure. The compression test results of both cylinders and cubes revealed that using of marble dust has negative effect on the compressive strength of ECC. The flexure strength result showed that marble dust can be used up to some extent replacing cement will increase the flexure strength. The result of mid span deflection suggests that by incorporating marble dust in ECC, its ductility increases.

Effects of Gradation of Sand on the Mechanical Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 374-378
Author(s):  
Ying Zi Yang ◽  
Yan Yao ◽  
Yu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Peak Load ◽  
Drying Shrinkage ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Paper Test ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composites ◽  
Load Peak ◽  
Fineness Modulus

Four-point bending test was employed to investigate the effects of gradation of sand on the mechanical properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC). The characteristics of ECC such as mid-span deflection, first cracking load, peak load and fracture toughness were obtained from the load-deflection curve. Effects of gradation of sand on fresh properties, compressive strength, flexural strength and drying shrinkage of ECC were also discussed in this paper. Test results shown that when the fineness modulus of sand in ECC was 1.0, the mid-span deflection and fracture toughness of ECC increased nearly 1.5 times and 2 times that of ECC with the sand fineness modulus of 2.97, respectively. With the sand getting finer, the more superplascitizer is needed and the crack width of ECC becomes smaller. The drying shrinkage of ECC with 2.97 and 1.0 fineness modulus of sand at 24 days was 8×10-4 and 15.6×10-4, respectively.

Influence of Fly Ash on the Mechanical Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites Cured at High Temperature

2010 ◽  
Vol 113-116 ◽  
pp. 1293-1296
Author(s):  
Yu Zhu ◽  
Ying Zi Yang ◽  
Hong Wei Deng ◽  
Yan Yao
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Fly Ash ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Four Point Bending ◽  
High Volume Fly Ash ◽  
Compressive Strength Test

In order to investigate the mechanical properties of cementitious composites (ECC) cured at 60°C, four-point bending test and compressive strength test are employed to analyze the effect of fly ash on the properties of ECC. The replacement ratio of cement with fly ash is 50%, 70% and 80%, respectively. The test results indicate that ECC with high volume fly ash still remain the characteristic of pseudo-strain hardening and the deflection of ECC increases remarkably by adding more fly ash. The observations of ECC indicate that the crack width is relatively smaller for higher volume fly ash ECC. Meanwhile, compressive strength of ECC specimens with 80% fly ash can reach to 70MPa. This is helpful to produce precast ECC with high volume of fly ash.

Compressive behavior of steel spiral confined engineered cementitious composites in circular columns

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (14) ◽  
pp. 3075-3088
Author(s):  
Wei Hou ◽  
Guan Lin ◽  
Xiaomeng Li ◽  
Pandeng Zheng ◽  
Zixiong Guo
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Cementitious Composite ◽  
Compression Tests ◽  
Compressive Behavior ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composites ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composite

Extensive research has been conducted on the uniaxial tensile and compressive behavior of engineered cementitious composites. Despite the high tensile ductility and high toughness of engineered cementitious composites, transverse steel reinforcement is still necessary for high-performance structural members made of engineered cementitious composites. However, very limited research has been concerned with the compressive behavior of steel-confined engineered cementitious composites. This article presents the results of axial compression tests on a series of circular engineered cementitious composite columns confined with steel spirals. The test variables included the engineered cementitious composite compressive strength, the spiral pitch, and the spiral yield stress. The test results show that steel-confined engineered cementitious composites in the test columns exhibited a very ductile behavior; the steel spiral confinement contributed effectively to the enhancement of both strength and ductility of engineered cementitious composites. The test results were then interpreted by comparing them with the predictions from some existing models. It was found that the existing models previously developed for confined concrete failed to predict the compressive strength of steel-confined engineered cementitious composites with sufficient accuracy. New fitting equations for the compressive properties of steel-confined engineered cementitious composites were then obtained on the basis of the test results of this study as well as those from an existing study.

Compressive Strength and Flexural Properties of High Performance Nano-Binder Cementitious Composites

2013 ◽  
Vol 275-277 ◽  
pp. 2064-2068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Gao ◽  
Qing Hua Li ◽  
Shi Lang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Flexural Properties ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Nano Sio2 ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Average Crack ◽  
Sio2 Particles ◽  
Pva Fiber

High performance nano-binder cementitious composites (HPNCC) are ultra-ductile fiber reinforced cementitious composites with special matrix. The compressive strength and flexural properties of HPNCC containing nano-SiO2 particles were investigated at age of 3d, 7d, 14d and 28d. According to the results, HPNCC exhibited excellent mechanical properties in the test. The compressive strength, flexural strength and first crack strain of HPNCC were all increased obviously at early age except the ultimate strain. In the flexural test, both crack extension width and the number of fine cracks decrease along with the curing age. However, the average crack spacing has no remarkable changes. Nano-SiO2 particles in HPNCC acted as ultra-fine fillers and catalyzers to strengthen the interfacial bond between the matrix and PVA fiber which improved the mechanical properties and would make HPNCC be widely used in the engineering.

scholarly journals Test research on mechanical properties of engineered cementitious composites

2021 ◽  
Vol 647 ◽  
pp. 012071
Author(s):  
Shuaiyu Wang ◽  
Hongxiu Du ◽  
Jingjing Lv ◽  
Jun Guo ◽  
Guoyang Yue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Cementitious Composites ◽  
Engineered Cementitious Composites
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