scholarly journals Durability of Modified Fiber Concrete for Rigid Pavements

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Andriy Mishutin ◽  
Kos Zeljko ◽  
Grynyova Iryna ◽  
Lucia Chintea

Abstract Modified concretes and fiber concretes for rigid pavements have been investigated. Four-factor experiment was conducted. The amount of Portland cement, polypropylene fiber, metakaolin and polycarboxylate superplasticizer varied in the experiment. All mixtures had the same mobility S2. The active mineral additive metakaolin increases the compressive strength of concrete and its tensile strength in bending. The amount of metakaolin at the level of 15.20 kg/m3 is rational. Due to a decrease in W/C with an increase in the amount of superplasticizer Coral ExpertSuid-5 to 0.9.1%, the compressive strength of concrete increases by 5.7 MPa, the tensile strength in bending increases by 0.5.0.6 MPa. Due to the introduction of polypropylene fiber, the tensile strength of concrete in bending increases by 0.6.0.9 MPa, the frost resistance of concrete increases by 50 cycles. Due to the use of a rational amount of superplasticizer and metakaolin, the frost resistance of concretes and fiber concretes concrete increases by 50-100 cycles. The use of a rational amount of modifiers and fiber reduces the abrasion of concretes by 40.45%. The developed modified fiber concretes of rigid pavements, depending on the amount of Portland cement, have compressive strength from 55 MPa to 70 MPa, tensile strength in bending from 8 MPa to 9.5 MPa, frost resistance from F350 to F450, abrasion from 0.30 to 0.40 g/cm2. Such strength, frost resistance and abrasion resistance allow the use of fiber concretes in pavements with the greatest load and ensures high durability of the material and corresponds to the directions and tasks of the state scientific and technical program “National Transport Strategy of Ukraine for the period up to 2030”

Author(s):  
A.V. Mishutin ◽  
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L. Chintea ◽  

Abstract. The research is devoted to the development of compositions of modified fiber concrete of rigid road pavements with high strength and frost resistance through the use of metakaolin and a polycarboxylate type superplasticizer. The compressive strength, tensile strength under bending and frost resistance of concrete and fiber concrete of rigid road pavements were investigated according to the 4-factor optimal plan. In the experiment the amount of concrete components varied: Portland cement, polypropylene fibers, metakaolin, the polycarboxylate type additives Coral ExpertSuid-5. All mixtures had equal mobility P2 and their W/C depended on the composition of concrete. The use of polypropylene fiber and metakaolin necessitates an increase of W/C to maintain the mobility of the mixture. Increasing the amount of Coral ExpertSuid-5 additive in concrete to 0.9-1% allows to reduce significantly W/C of the mixture. Metakaolin as an active mineral additive increases the compressive strength and tensile strength of concrete. Rational in terms of increasing strength is the amount of metakaolin at the level of 20..22 kg/m3. With an increase in the amount of Coral ExpertSuid-5 additive to 0.9..1% due to a decrease of W/C, the compressive strength of concrete increases by 5..7 MPa, and the tensile strength increases by about 0.5 MPa. Due to the introduction of polypropylene fiber, the tensile strength of concrete in bending increases by 0.6..0.9 MPa. But dispersed reinforcement does not affect the compressive strength of concrete. The developed fiber concrete using a rational amount of modifiers, depending on the amount of Portland cement in the composition, has a compressive strength from 55 MPa to 70 MPa and tensile strength from 8 MPa to 9.5 MPa. The high strength of fiber-reinforced concretes allows their use in road pavements with the highest load. Frost resistance of concrete increases by 50 cycles or more when using fiber in an amount of 1.5-2 kg/m3. Due to the use of a rational amount of modifiers (0.8-1% Coral ExpertSuid-5 additive and 15-20 kg/m3 metakaolin), frost resistance of concrete and fiber concrete increases by 50-100 cycles. The developed modified fiber concretes of rigid road pavements depending on the amount of Portland cement in the composition have frost resistance from F350 to F450, which ensures their sufficient durability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
S. Kroviakov ◽  
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A. Mishutin ◽  
L. Chintea ◽  
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The experiment was carried out according to the optimal plan, which four factors of the composition of modified fiber concrete for rigid pavement were varied: amount of Portland cement, polypropylene fiber, metakaolin and polycarboxylate type additive. All concrete mixtures had equal mobility P2. Complex of experimental-statistical models describe the influence of factors on the properties of concrete is obtained. Selection of optimal compositions of fiber concrete of a rigid pavement was carried out using the obtained experimental-statistical models. Graphical optimization method for "squares and squares" diagrams was used. The square in the coordinates "amount of metakaolin" - "amount of complex action additive Coral ExpertSuid-5" was used as a carrier in the construction of diagrams. These values of the mechanical characteristics of concrete were used as limitation criteria: compressive strength at the age of 3 and 28 days, flexural tensile strength, frost-resistance, abrasion. Frost-resistance and abrasion are the main indicators that ensure the durability of concrete for rigid pavement in typical operating conditions. The concrete prime cost indicator was used as an optimization criterion. 2 variants of concretes compositions of classes C30/35 and C32/40 with increased durability and high strength was chosen. The selected compositions of C30/35 class concretes have frost-resistance F350, flexural tensile strength 8.0-8.2 MPa, abrasion 0.38-0.39 g/cm2, compressive strength at 3 days age 35 MPa and strength at 28 days age 54 MPa. The selected compositions of C32/40 class concretes have frost-resistance F400, flexural tensile strength 8.5-8.6 MPa, abrasion 0.34 g/cm2, compressive strength at 3 days age 38-39 MPa and strength at 28 days age 57-58 MPa. All four selected compositions have the amount of metakaolin 15-20 kg/m3, polypropylene fiber 0.9-1.5 kg/m3, polycarboxylate type additive Coral ExpertSuid-5 0.8-0.9% of the cement mass.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
M Zainul Arifin

This research was conducted to determine the value of the highest compressive strength from the ratio of normal concrete to normal concrete plus additive types of Sika Cim with a composition variation of 0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75%, 1.00%, 1.25%, 1 , 50% and 1.75% of the weight of cement besides that in this study also aims to find the highest tensile strength from the ratio of normal concrete to normal concrete in the mixture of sika cim composition at the highest compressive strength above and after that added fiber wire with a size diameter of 1 mm in length 100 mm with a ratio of 1% of material weight. The concrete mix plan was calculated using the ASTM method, the matrial composition of the normal concrete mixture as follows, 314 kg / m3 cement, 789 kg / m3 sand, 1125 kg / m3 gravel and 189 liters / m3 of water at 10 cm slump, then normal concrete added variations of the composition of sika cim 0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75%, 1.00%, 1.25%, 1.5%, 1.75% by weight of cement and fiber, the tests carried out were compressive strength of concrete and tensile strength of concrete, normal maintenance is soaked in fresh water for 28 days at 30oC. From the test results it was found that the normal concrete compressive strength at the age of 28 days was fc1 30 Mpa, the variation in the addition of the sika cim additive type mineral was achieved in composition 0.75% of the cement weight of fc1 40.2 Mpa 30C. Besides that the tensile strength test results were 28 days old with the addition of 1% fiber wire mineral to the weight of the material at a curing temperature of 30oC of 7.5%.


2011 ◽  
Vol 477 ◽  
pp. 274-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Xu ◽  
Lin Hua Jiang ◽  
Hong Qiang Chu ◽  
Lei Chen

In this study, the effects of fiber types on the mechanical properties of lightweight aggregate concretes were investigated. Three types of fibers, namely, polypropylene fiber, steel fiber and water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) fiber, and two types of lightweight aggregates, namely, expanded polystyrene and ceramsite were used. The compressive strength and splitting tensile strength of concretes were tested. The results show that both the compressive strength and the splitting tensile strength were improved by adding a reasonable volume of steel fiber and polypropylene fiber into LWAC. The addition of water hyacinth fiber had little effect on the compressive strength of LWAC, while a little increase was observed in the splitting tensile strength.


2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Amer M. Ibrahem ◽  
Shakir A. Al-Mishhadani ◽  
Zeinab H.Naji

This investigation aimed to study the effect of nano metakaolin ( NMK ) on some properties (compressive strength ,splitting tensile strength & water absorption ) of concrete. The nano metakaolin (NMK) was prepared by thermal activation of kaolin clay for 2 hours at 750 Ċ. The cement used in this investigation consists of ordinary Portland cement (OPC). The OPC was partially substituted by NMK of ( 3, 5 & 10%) by weight of cement. The C45 concrete was prepared , using water/cement ratio ( W/c) of (0.53) .The Water absorption was tested at 28 days while the tests (compressive strength ,splitting tensile strength) were tested at ages of (7, 28, 60,& 90) days . The compressive strength and splitting tensile strength of concrete with NMK were higher than that of reference concrete with the same W/c ratio.The improvement in the compressive strength when using NMK was (42.2, 55.8 , 63.1% ) at age 28 days for ( 3%, 5%, &10% ) replacement of NMK respectively whereas the improvement in the splitting tensile strength was (0% , 36% & 46.8 %) at age of 28 days when using (3%, 5%, &10% ) NMK respectively. The improvement in the water absorption was (16.6%, 21.79%, &25.6 ) when using (3, 5, &10% )NMK.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 546-550
Author(s):  
Aurelijus Daugėla ◽  
Džigita Nagrockienė ◽  
Laurynas Zarauskas

Cement as the binding agent in the production of concrete can be replaced with active mineral admixtures. Biofuel combustion fly ash is one of such admixtures. Materials used for the study: Portland cement CEM I 42.5 R, sand of 0/4 fraction, gravel of 4/16 fraction, biofuel fly ash, superplasticizer, water. Six compositions of concrete were designed by replacing 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% 20%, and 25% of cement with biofuel fly ash. The article analyses the effect of biofuel fly ash content on the properties of concrete. The tests revealed that the increase of biofuel fly ash content up to 20% increases concrete density and compressive strength after 7 and 28 days of curing and decreases water absorption, with corrected water content by using plasticizing admixture. It was found that concrete where 20% of cement is replaced by biofuel ash has higher frost resistance.


Author(s):  
Theodore Gautier Bikoko ◽  
Jean Claude Tchamba ◽  
Valentine Yato Katte ◽  
Divine Kum Deh

To fight against the high cost and the increasing scarcity of cement and at the same time to reduce the CO2 greenhouse gases emission associated with the production of Portland cement, two types of wood ashes as a substitute of cement in the production of concretes were investigated. In this paper, we substituted cement by two types of species of wood ashes namely, avocado and eucalyptus ashes following the proportions ranging from 0% to 30 % on one hand, and on the other hand, we added these two types of species of wood ashes namely, avocado and eucalyptus ashes following the proportions ranging from 0% to 10 % by weight of cement in the concrete samples. After 7, 14 and 28 days of curing, compressive strength tests were conducted on these concrete samples. The findings revealed that using wood ashes as additives/admixtures or as a substitute of cement in the production/manufacturing of concrete decreased the compressive strength of concrete. Hence, it can be said that wood ash has a negative influence on the strength of concrete. At three percent (3%) and ten percent (10%) of addition, the wood ash from eucalyptus specie offers better resistance compared to the wood ash from avocado specie, whereas at five percent (5%) of addition, the wood ash from avocado specie offers better resistance compared to the wood ash from eucalyptus specie. At thirty percent (30%) of substitution, the wood ash from eucalyptus specie offers better resistance compared to the wood ash from avocado specie. The compressive strengths increase with the increase of curing age.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-You Wu ◽  
Longxin Que ◽  
Zhaoyang Cui ◽  
Paul Lambert

Concrete made from ordinary Portland cement is one of the most widely used construction materials due to its excellent compressive strength. However, concrete lacks ductility resulting in low tensile strength and flexural strength, and poor resistance to crack formation. Studies have demonstrated that the addition of graphene oxide (GO) nanosheet can effectively enhance the compressive and flexural properties of ordinary Portland cement paste, confirming GO nanosheet as an excellent candidate for using as nano-reinforcement in cement-based composites. To date, the majority of studies have focused on cement pastes and mortars. Only limited investigations into concretes incorporating GO nanosheets have been reported. This paper presents an experimental investigation on the slump and physical properties of concrete reinforced with GO nanosheets at additions from 0.00% to 0.08% by weight of cement and a water–cement ratio of 0.5. The study demonstrates that the addition of GO nanosheets improves the compressive strength, flexural strength, and split tensile strength of concrete, whereas the slump of concrete decreases with increasing GO nanosheet content. The results also demonstrate that 0.03% by weight of cement is the optimum value of GO nanosheet dosage for improving the split tensile strength of concrete.


Author(s):  
Moein Khoshroo ◽  
Ali Akbar Shirzadi Javid ◽  
Nima Rajabi Bakhshandeh ◽  
Mohamad Shalchiyan

In this study, the effect of using crumb rubber and recycled aggregates on the mechanical properties of concrete has been evaluated as areplacement of fine and coarse aggregates In order to add the admixtures and evaluate their combined effect, 20 different types of concrete mixture ratio were prepared. The results indicated that in those samples containing crumb rubber and recycled aggregates the compressive strength is reduced and adding fiber up to 0.1%. to these concrete samples can improve the compressive strength Also, the tensile strength of the samples mixed with crumb rubber and recycled aggregates were decreased, and with the addition of propylene fiber up to 0.4%. the tensile strength slightly increased Moreover by adding the crumb rubber to the samples the elasticity modulus was reduced but by adding fiber to samples about 0.1% and 0.2.% the modulus of elasticity of concrete in all samples were increased. According to the results, it can be said that using the combination of 5% of crumb rubber as a replacement of fine aggregate, and the combination of 35% of recycled aggregates as a replacement of coarse aggregate, and also by adding 0.1% polypropylene fiber in volumetric percentage of concrete along with adding 7% of micro silica as a replacement of cement led to the best effect on the mechanical properties of concrete.


2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 00116
Author(s):  
Jacek Szulej ◽  
Paweł Ogrodnik

In the paper it was decided to recognize the material characteristics of concrete based on ceramic aggregate, aluminous cement with the addition of zeolite (5%, 10%, 15%) and air entraining admixture. Aggregate crushed to 2 fractions was used for designing the concrete mix : 0-4 mm, and 4-8 mm. The research involved the use of clinoptilolite derived from the zeolite tuff deposit at Sokyrnytsya (Transcarpathia, Ukraine). The dominant component in the zeolite is clinoptilolite in an amount of about 75%. The research carried out by the authors showed that the addition of zeolite, among others, increases the compressive strength of concrete, significantly improves the frost resistance, which in the case of using only aluminous cement is very low. The obtained results confirm the possibility of using the above-mentioned components, which improve the concrete material properties and are environmentally friendly.


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