• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.225-232
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to find the mechanical properties of lightweight concrete using expanded clay. Thus, slump, air content, compressive strength, elastic modulus, tensile strength, length change ratio, unitweight change ratio and absorption of lightweight concrete have been investigated. The conclusions of this study are as follows ; 1. The loss of slump and air content of concrete increased as the expanded clay content increased and the size of coarse aggregate decreased. 2. The compressive strength of concrete using 100% expanded clay of 13, 19mm size at 28 days were respectively 282, $252kgf/cm^2$. 3. The elastic modulus and tensile strength of concrete decreased with increase of expanded clay content. 4. The length change ratio of concrete increased with the larger coarse aggregate size, and decreased with the increase of expanded clay content. 5. The unit weight of concrete decreased with the increase of expanded clay content, and the ratio of that was larger at the early age.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.781-784
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• 2008

Recently as application of high-strength concrete on concrete structures has been on the rise, use of non-standard specimen is increasing. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of specimen's size effect, ratio of height/diameter and curing conditions on concrete compressive strength. Results of experiments showed that as size of specimen increased as much as 1 mm, standard design compressive strength of 24MPa fell as much as0.15MPa 40MPa fell as much as 0.1MPa 80MPa fell as much as 0.3MPa, and it indicates that as the level of strength is intensified, the decrement of compressive strength increases. As ratio of height/diameter increased as much as 1.0, compressive strength of 24MPa fell as much as 2.9MPa 40MPa fell as much as 3.7MPa 80MPa fell as much as 9.8MPa, and it means that as strength of concrete is higher, influence of ratio of height/diameter becomes bigger.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.94-95
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• 2020

Oyster shells are characterized by coarse and coarse grains, but similar in strength to sand, and egg shells are fine grains but weak in strength. In terms of supply and demand of raw materials, oyster shells can be supplied only in limited periods and regions in winter and south coast of the year, but egg shells have the advantage of being able to supply and supply nationwide 365 days. This study aims to study the change in strength characteristics by mixing oyster shell powder and egg shell powder with the same particle size and mixing up to 150%. The conclusions of the flexural and compressive strength tests of mortar mixed with oyster shell powder and egg shell powder are as follows. The 7-day flexural and compressive strength with ESP added and the 3-day flexural and compressive strength with OSP added were similar, which is thought to be because the strength of OSP is higher than that of ESP.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.101-106
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• 2001

This paper presents experimental results for the confining characteristics of cylinder with center-hole and spiral reinforcements. The experiments have been conducted for the specimens with primary variables i.e., spiral reinforcement ratio and diameter of center-hole which affect the compressive strength and stress-strain relationship. Through this research, it was found that the compressive strength and ductility were increased with the ratio of spiral reinforcement because the lateral expansion of the concrete inside the spiral was restrained by the spiral, but dependent on the size of center-hole.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.193-198
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• 1978

Test-bricks were prepared from an artifically graded Ham Kang sand and a commercial CaO and autoclaved for 6 hours at $16 kg/cm^2$ pressure $(203^{\circ}C)$. Bricks were tested for compressive strength, free lime, saluble silica and amount of water absorption. Physical properties of bricks were very much depended on the size distribution of sand particle and the amount of soluble silica in bricks.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.197-217
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• 2012

This research deals with the prediction of compressive strength of normal and high strength concrete using neural networks. The compressive strength was modeled as a function of eight variables: quantities of cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate, micro-silica, water and super-plasticizer, maximum size of coarse aggregate, fineness modulus of fine aggregate. Two networks, one using raw variables and another using grouped dimensionless variables were constructed, trained and tested using available experimental data, covering a large range of concrete compressive strengths. The neural network models were compared with regression models. The neural networks based model gave high prediction accuracy and the results demonstrated that the use of neural networks in assessing compressive strength of concrete is both practical and beneficial. The performance of model using the grouped dimensionless variables is better than the prediction using raw variables.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.37-43
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• 2008

The unconfined compressive strength of soil-cement mixed with red mud, an industrial by-product of alumina production, was investigated in the laboratory. The investigation involved laboratory tests under the various conditions such as red mud content, cement content, fly ash content and ratio of soil replacement with sands. The unconfined compressive strength tests were performed at 7, 14 and 21 days after specimen preparation. Results of the study show that the unconfined compressive strength increased as red mud and fly ash content decreased and cement content increased. Increasing the soil replacement ratio with sands had an insignificant effect on compressive strength because the soil had a similar particle size as the replacement sands.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.345-351
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• 2003

The transport characteristics of deleterious ions such as chlorides depend on the pore structures of concrete and are the major factors in the durability of concrete structures in subjected to chloride attack such as in marine environments. In this paper, the effect of the pore structure on compressive strength and chloride diffusivity of concrete was investigated. Six types of concretes were tested. The pore volume of concrete containing mineral admixtures increased in the range of 3∼30nm due to micro filling effect of hydrates of the mineral admixtures. There was a good correlation between the median pore diameter, the pore volume above 50nm and compressive strength of concrete, but there was not a significant correlation between the total pore volume and compressive strength. The relationship between compressive strength and chloride diffusivity were not well correlated, however, pore volume above 50nm were closely related to the chloride diffusion coefficient.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.137-150
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• 2019

In this paper, surrogate models such as multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) and M5P model tree (M5P MT) methods have been investigated in order to propose a new formulation for the 28-days compressive strength of self-compacting concrete (SCC) incorporating metakaolin as a supplementary cementitious materials. A database comprising experimental data has been assembled from several published papers in the literature and the data have been used for training and testing. In particular, the data are arranged in a format of seven input parameters covering contents of cement, coarse aggregate to fine aggregate ratio, water, metakaolin, super plasticizer, largest maximum size and binder as well as one output parameter, which is the 28-days compressive strength. The efficiency of the proposed techniques has been demonstrated by means of certain statistical criteria. The findings have been compared to experimental results and their comparisons shows that the MARS and M5P MT approaches predict the compressive strength of SCC incorporating metakaolin with great precision. The performed sensitivity analysis to assign effective parameters on 28-days compressive strength indicates that cementitious binder content is the most effective variable in the mixture.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.545-559
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• 2023

In this study, an experimental investigation was conducted to assess the influence of ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) and silica fume (SF) on the fresh and hardened properties of grout specimens and preplaced aggregate concrete (PAC). Grout proportions were optimized statistically using a factorial design and were applied to 10 mm and 20 mm coarse aggregates to produce PAC. The results demonstrate that GGBS has a more significant effect on the compressive strength of grout compared to SF, with a small increase or decrease in the GGBS content having a greater influence on the compressive strength of grout than SF. The water to binder ratio had the most significant effect on the compressive strength of PAC, followed by the coarse aggregate size and sand to binder ratio. An empirical relationship to predict the compressive strength of PAC was proposed through an experimentally derived factorial design along with a statistical analysis of collectively obtained data and a deep literature review. The results predicted by the empirical relationship were in good agreement with those of PAC produced for verification.