Measurement of Water Content in Portland Cement Concrete
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 125, Issue 3
Abstract
Warping of portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements is the result of temperature and/or moisture gradients in the pavement structure. So far, the focus has been on studying and modeling temperature gradients caused by the relative ease of measuring temperature gradients in PCC as compared with the measurement of moisture gradients. This paper provides the methodology for determining the moisture content in nonreinforced PCC pavements by relating the moisture content to the dielectric constant. This relationship is a second-order polynomial equation with a 95% confidence band for a range of water contents from 4 to 11%.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 125 • Issue 3 • May 1999
Pages: 245 - 249
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Received: Oct 29, 1997
Published online: May 1, 1999
Published in print: May 1999
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