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Fundamental Properties of Antiwashout Underwater Concrete Mixed with Mineral Admixtures

  • Han-Young, Moon;Kook-Jae, Shin;Yong-Kyu, Song
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.457-460
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    • 2003
  • This paper discusses laboratory evaluations to assess the physical properties of antiwashout underwater concrete (AWC) containing pozzolanic materials such as fly ash (FA), blast furnace slag (SG) and metakaolin(MK). For the experiments, pH value, suspended solids, slump flow, efflux time and compressive strength were tested. According to the results from compressive strength test, MK10 showed the very high compressive strength characteristic during the entire curing days, but the rate of strength development was decreased as time goes by.

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Research on construction simulation technology of civil building structure engineering based on artificial intelligence

  • Zhongkuo Zhang;Jie Ren
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2024
  • Nanotechnology is the latest technology developed by humanity, trying to use the molecular properties of materials found in nature to create devices that solve the problems plaguing humanity and their efficiency. Man is also trying to change the meaning of molecules to nano so that a body made up of these particles has all the properties of these particles. Nanotechnology is not a new field but a new approach in all areas. A new perspective in concrete technology has been created by the use of nanoparticles in recent years. Adding silica nanoparticles to concrete mixes improves its properties and increases its strength. However, different results and reported mechanisms explain the behavior of nanoparticles in the mixture; Therefore, it took much work to generalize the results and predict the behavior of nano concretes. This article is about the construction simulation technology of civil engineering based on artificial intelligence, which deals with the effect of nanoparticles on improving concrete properties. This was demonstrated by analyzing laboratory samples in various mixture configurations and observing how silica nanoparticles affected their microstructure with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Based on SEM measurements, silica nanoparticles have a powerful effect because of their specific surface area. Their increase and decrease must be sought in interacting with the filling and nucleation mechanism and the pozzolanic activity. Each of these mechanisms dominates at different ages of hydration and affects the microstructure and mechanical properties of concrete.

Mechanical and fracture properties of glass fiber reinforced geopolymer concrete

  • Midhuna, M.S.;Gunneswara Rao, T.D.;Chaitanya Srikrishna, T.
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.29-45
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    • 2018
  • This paper investigates the effect of inclusion of glass fibers on mechanical and fracture properties of binary blend geopolymer concrete produced by using fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag. To study the effect of glass fibers, the mix design parameters like binder content, alkaline solution/binder ratio, sodium hydroxide concentration and aggregate grading were kept constant. Four different volume fractions (0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.4%) and two different lengths (6 mm, 13 mm) of glass fibers were considered in the present study. Three different notch-depth ratios (0.1, 0.2, and 0.3) were considered for determining the fracture properties. The test results indicated that the addition of glass fibers improved the flexural strength, split tensile strength, fracture energy, critical stress intensity factor and critical crack mouth opening displacement of geopolymer concrete. 13 mm fibers are found to be more effective than 6 mm fibers and the optimum dosage of glass fibers was found to be 0.3% (by volume of concrete). The study shows the enormous potential of glass fiber reinforced geopolymer concrete in structural applications.

Investigation towards strength properties of ternary blended concrete

  • Imam, Ashhad;Moeeni, Shahzad Asghar;Srivastava, Vikas;Sharma, Keshav K
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.207-217
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    • 2021
  • This study relates to a production of Quaternary Cement Concrete (QCC) prepared by using Micro Silica (MS), Marble Dust (MD) and Rice Husk Ash (RHA), followed by an investigation towards fresh and hardened properties of blended concrete. A total of 39 mixes were cast by incorporating different percentages of MS (6%, 7% and 8%), MD (5%, 10% and 15%) and RHA (5%, 10%, 15% and 20%) as partial replacement of Ordinary Portland Cement. The workability of fresh concrete was maintained in the range of 100±25 mm by adding 0.7% of Super Plasticizer in the mix. Optimum mechanical strength was observed at combination of 8% MS+5% MD+10% RHA. Marble dust replacement from 10 to 15% and Rice husk ash replacements from 15 to 20% depicted a substantial reduction in compressive strength at all ages. Durability parameter with respect to water absorption at 28 days shows an increasing trend as the percentage of blending increases.

The Engineering Properties of Recycled Aggregate Concrete using Silica-Fume and Fly-Ash (플라이애쉬와 실리카흄을 사용한 재생골재 콘크리트의 공학적 특성)

  • 구봉근;이상근;신재인;이현석
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.229-232
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    • 1999
  • This study provided the engineering properties of the recycled aggregate concrete with fly-ash and silica-fume. There are considered recycled aggregate substitution ratio, and fly-ash silica-fume mix ratio as the experimental variable. From the experimental result, we could know that the recycled aggregate concrete mixed silica-fume is superior on the compressive strength but, is poor on the construction property than fly-ash. The optimal mix ratio of the fly-ash and silica-fume is 10% in all.

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Effects of Concrete Superplastizers on the Cement Wettability and the Strength Properties of Cocreate Mortar (콘크리트 유동화제가 시멘트 입자의 표면 젖음성 및 콘크리트 몰타르 경화물성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Ho
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.457-462
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    • 2010
  • In this research, the effects of the concrete superplastizers on the wettability of cement particle and concrete strength were studied. The wettability of the cement particles strongly depended on the type of the superplastizer. When the superplastizer had a higher wettability with the cement particles, it revealed a good fluidity of the concrete mortar and a higher concrete strength. Non-ionic superplastizers (polycarboxylic type) had a relatively good performance on the mortar fluidity and concrete strength properties compared to anionic superplastizers (lignosulfate, sulfonated naphthalene formaldehyde, sulfonated melamin formaldehyde). It was observed that the blending of the polycarboxylic and the lignosulfate type concrete superplastizers resulted in synergistic effects on the concrete mortar fluidity and concrete strength properties.

Predicting concrete properties using neural networks (NN) with principal component analysis (PCA) technique

  • Boukhatem, B.;Kenai, S.;Hamou, A.T.;Ziou, Dj.;Ghrici, M.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.557-573
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    • 2012
  • This paper discusses the combined application of two different techniques, Neural Networks (NN) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), for improved prediction of concrete properties. The combination of these approaches allowed the development of six neural networks models for predicting slump and compressive strength of concrete with mineral additives such as blast furnace slag, fly ash and silica fume. The Back-Propagation Multi-Layer Perceptron (BPMLP) with Bayesian regularization was used in all these models. They are produced to implement the complex nonlinear relationship between the inputs and the output of the network. They are also established through the incorporation of a huge experimental database on concrete organized in the form Mix-Property. Thus, the data comprising the concrete mixtures are much correlated to each others. The PCA is proposed for the compression and the elimination of the correlation between these data. After applying the PCA, the uncorrelated data were used to train the six models. The predictive results of these models were compared with the actual experimental trials. The results showed that the elimination of the correlation between the input parameters using PCA improved the predictive generalisation performance models with smaller architectures and dimensionality reduction. This study showed also that using the developed models for numerical investigations on the parameters affecting the properties of concrete is promising.

Effect of fly ash and plastic waste on mechanical and durability properties of concrete

  • Paliwal, Gopal;Maru, Savita
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.575-586
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    • 2017
  • The disposal of polythene waste and fly ash is causing serious threat to the environment. Aim of this study is to decrease environmental pollution by using polythene waste and fly ash in concrete. In this study, cement was partially replaced with 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% fly ash (by weight) and plastic waste was added in shredded form at 0.6% by weight of concrete. The specimens were prepared for the concrete mix of M25 grade and water to cementitious material ratio (w/c) was maintained as 0.45. Fresh concrete property like workability was examined during casting the specimens. Hardened properties were found out by carrying out the experimental work on cubes, cylinders and beams which were cast in laboratory and their behavior under test were observed at 7 & 28 days for compressive strength and at 28 days for density, flexural strength, dynamic modulus of elasticity, abrasion resistance, water permeability and impact resistance. Overall results of this study show that addition of 0.6% (by weight of the concrete) plastic waste with 10% (by weight of cement) replacement of cement by fly ash result an improvement in properties of the concrete than conventional mix.

Self-Consolidating Concrete Incorporating High Volume of Fly Ash, Slag, and Recycled Asphalt Pavement

  • Mahmoud, Enad;Ibrahim, Ahmed;El-Chabib, Hassan;Patibandla, Varun Chowdary
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.155-163
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    • 2013
  • The use of sustainable technologies such as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), and/or recycled materials is expected to positively affect the performance of concrete mixtures. However, it is imperative to qualify and implement such mixtures in practice, if the required specifications of their intended application are met. This paper presents the results of a laboratory investigation of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) containing sustainable technologies. Twelve mixes were prepared with different combinations of fly ash, slag, and recycled asphalt pavement (RAP). Fresh and hardened concrete properties were measured, as expected the inclusion of the sustainable technologies affected both fresh and hardened concrete properties. Analysis of the experimental data indicated that inclusion of RAP not only reduces the ultimate strength, but it also affected the compressive strength development rate. The addition of RAP to mixes showed a consistent effect, with a drop in strength after 3, 14, and 28 days as the RAP content increased from 0 to 50 %. However, most of the mixes satisfied SCC fresh properties requirements, including mixes with up to 50 % RAP. Moreover, several mixes satisfied compressive strength requirement for pavements and bridges, those mixes included relatively high percentages of SCMs and RAP.

Plastic viscosity based mix design of self-compacting concrete with crushed rock fines

  • Kalyana Rama, JS;Sivakumar, MVN;Vasan, A;Kubair, Sai;Ramachandra Murthy, A
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.461-468
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    • 2017
  • With the increasing demand in the production of concrete, there is a need for adopting a feasible, economical and sustainable technique to fulfill practical requirements. Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) is one such technique which addresses the concrete industry in providing eco-friendly and cost effective concrete. The objective of the present study is to develop a mix design for SCC with Crushed Rock Fines (CRF) as fine aggregate based on the plastic viscosity of the mix and validate the same for its fresh and hardened properties. Effect of plastic viscosity on the fresh and hardened properties of SCC is also addressed in the present study. SCC mixes are made with binary and ternary blends of Fly Ash (FA) and Ground Granulated Blast Slag (GGBS) with varying percentages as a partial replacement to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). The proposed mix design is validated successfully with the experimental investigations. The results obtained, indicated that the fresh properties are best achieved for SCC mix with ternary blend followed by binary blend with GGBS, Fly Ash and mix with pure OPC. It is also observed that the replacement of sand with 100% CRF resulted in a workable and cohesive mix.