Physical Properties and Seepage Characteristics of Optimized Fiber-Reinforced Permeable Concrete
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 33, Issue 5
Abstract
Permeable concrete is required to have adequate strength, water permeability, and freeze-thaw resistance as pavement material. The purpose of this research is to improve the properties of fiber-reinforced permeable concrete (FRPC) based on orthogonal experimental design by adjusting water-cement ratio (), target porosity, volume content of polyacrylonitrile fiber (PANF), and polypropylene plastic fiber (PPF). Computer tomography (CT) is applied to generate the three-dimensional (3D) pore structure model of optimized FRPC for permeability prediction and seepage flow simulation by the computed fluid dynamics (CFD) method. The results show that the FRPC with of 0.37, target porosity of 20%, PANF volume content of 0.16%, and PPF volume content of 0.25% can obtain reasonable strength (compressive , flexural ), high water permeability (permeability ), and adequate frost resistance (freeze-thaw ). The permeability coefficient obtained by numerical simulation shows error less than 10% in comparison with experimental results. The relationship of seepage velocity and pressure gradient confirms to Darcy-Forchheimer’s law and the critical Reynolds number for optimized FRPC with aggregate sizes of is 21.92.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published article.
Acknowledgments
This study is financially supported by Water Conservancy Scientific Research and Technology Extension Project of Shandong Province (SDSLTG201604).
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Received: Sep 30, 2019
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