Effects of Coarse Aggregate Content and Salt Solution Concentration on Freeze–Thaw Damage in Concrete
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 33, Issue 11
Abstract
Freeze–thaw (FT) damage is one of the main factors affecting the durability of concrete structures. This paper focused on the effects of the coarse aggregate volume fraction (CAVF) on FT damage to concrete in different salt solution concentrations (SSCs). The dynamic elastic modulus (DEM) and cumulative scaling quantity (CSQ) were obtained by rapid FT tests to investigate the CAVF’s influence at different SSCs. Both the dynamic elastic modulus and cumulative scaling quantity became worse with the increasing FT cycles. The dynamic elastic modulus increased with an increasing coarse aggregate volume fraction, but the cumulative scaling quantity decreased significantly. Meanwhile, the salt solution concentration had little effects on the DEM and CSQ. Furthermore, an empirical prediction model for evaluating the relative dynamic elastic modulus (RDEM) considering the CAVF was established via regression analysis and validated by experiments. A prediction model for assessing the relative cumulative scaling quantity taking into account the effects of the loss rates of the RDEM and CAVF was developed, and it correlated well with the experimental results.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published article.
Acknowledgments
The authors appreciate the insightful and constructive comments of anonymous reviewers. We are grateful to those who assisted us in completing this laboratory work. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51979191), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0802201, 2016YFC0802204), and the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety.
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