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Internal curing of engineered cementitious composites for prevention of early age autogenous shrinkage cracking / Mustafa Şahmaran in Cement and concrete research, Vol. 39 N° 10 (Octobre 2009) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Cement and concrete research > Vol. 39 N° 10 (Octobre 2009) . - pp. 893–901 Titre : Internal curing of engineered cementitious composites for prevention of early age autogenous shrinkage cracking Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mustafa Şahmaran, Auteur ; Mohamed Lachemi, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 893–901 Note générale : Génie Civil Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Autogenous  shrinkage;  Drying  shrinkage;  Engineered  cementitious  composites  (ECC);  Internal  curing;  Uniaxial  tensile  test;  Flexural  test Index. décimale : 691 Matériaux de construction. Pièces et parties composantes Résumé : This investigation was carried out to study the effects of using a replacement percentage of saturated lightweight fine aggregate (LWA) as an internal curing agent on the shrinkage and mechanical behavior of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC). ECC is a micromechanically-based, designed high-performance, fiber-reinforced cementitious composite with high ductility and improved durability due to tight crack width. Standard ECC mixtures are typically produced with micro-silica sand (200 µm maximum aggregate size). Two replacement levels of silica sand with saturated LWA (fraction 0.59–4.76 mm) were adopted: the investigation used 10 and 20% by weight of total silica sand content, respectively. For each LWA replacement level, two different ECC mixtures with a fly ash-to-Portland cement ratio (FA/PC) of 1.2 and 2.2 were cast. In a control test series, two types of standard ECC mixtures with only silica sand were also studied. To investigate the effect of replacing a portion of the silica sand with saturated LWA on the mechanical properties of ECC, the study compared the results of uniaxial tensile, flexure and compressive strength tests, crack development, autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage. The test results showed that the autogenous shrinkage strains of the control ECCs with a low water-to-cementitious material ratio (W/CM) (0.27) and high volume FA developed rapidly, even at early ages. The results also showed that up to a 20% replacement of normal-weight silica sand with saturated LWA was very effective in reducing the autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage of ECC. On the other hand, the partial replacement of silica sand with saturated LWA with a nominal maximum aggregate size of 4.76 mm is shown to have a negative effect, especially on the ductility and strength properties of ECC. The test results also confirm that the autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage of ECC significantly decreases with increasing FA content. Moreover, increasing FA content is shown to have a positive effect on the ductility of ECC. DEWEY : 620.13 ISSN : 0008-8846 En ligne : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008884609001665 [article] Internal curing of engineered cementitious composites for prevention of early age autogenous shrinkage cracking [texte imprimé] / Mustafa Şahmaran, Auteur ; Mohamed Lachemi, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 893–901. Génie Civil Langues : Anglais (eng) in Cement and concrete research > Vol. 39 N° 10 (Octobre 2009) . - pp. 893–901 Mots-clés : Autogenous  shrinkage;  Drying  shrinkage;  Engineered  cementitious  composites  (ECC);  Internal  curing;  Uniaxial  tensile  test;  Flexural  test Index. décimale : 691 Matériaux de construction. Pièces et parties composantes Résumé : This investigation was carried out to study the effects of using a replacement percentage of saturated lightweight fine aggregate (LWA) as an internal curing agent on the shrinkage and mechanical behavior of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC). ECC is a micromechanically-based, designed high-performance, fiber-reinforced cementitious composite with high ductility and improved durability due to tight crack width. Standard ECC mixtures are typically produced with micro-silica sand (200 µm maximum aggregate size). Two replacement levels of silica sand with saturated LWA (fraction 0.59–4.76 mm) were adopted: the investigation used 10 and 20% by weight of total silica sand content, respectively. For each LWA replacement level, two different ECC mixtures with a fly ash-to-Portland cement ratio (FA/PC) of 1.2 and 2.2 were cast. In a control test series, two types of standard ECC mixtures with only silica sand were also studied. To investigate the effect of replacing a portion of the silica sand with saturated LWA on the mechanical properties of ECC, the study compared the results of uniaxial tensile, flexure and compressive strength tests, crack development, autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage. The test results showed that the autogenous shrinkage strains of the control ECCs with a low water-to-cementitious material ratio (W/CM) (0.27) and high volume FA developed rapidly, even at early ages. The results also showed that up to a 20% replacement of normal-weight silica sand with saturated LWA was very effective in reducing the autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage of ECC. On the other hand, the partial replacement of silica sand with saturated LWA with a nominal maximum aggregate size of 4.76 mm is shown to have a negative effect, especially on the ductility and strength properties of ECC. The test results also confirm that the autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage of ECC significantly decreases with increasing FA content. Moreover, increasing FA content is shown to have a positive effect on the ductility of ECC. DEWEY : 620.13 ISSN : 0008-8846 En ligne : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008884609001665