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High-Value Concrete
High-Value
Concrete
High-Value Concrete
High-Value
Concrete
What is High-Performance?
High-Strength Concrete
High-Durability Concrete
Self-Consolidating Concrete
High-Value
Concrete
High strength
High-Value
Concrete
Volume stability
Ease of placement
Compaction without
segregation
Blended cement
Fly ash / Slag / Silica fume
Calcined clay/ Metakaolin
Calcined shale
Superplasticizers
High-range water reducers
Cementing material /
Durability /
High strength
Flowability
Reduce water-cement ratio
Control setting
Shrinkage reducers
ASR inhibitors
Optimally graded aggr.
Reduce shrinkage
Control alkali-silica activity
Improve workability/reduce paste
Polymer/latex modifiers
Durability
High-Value
Concrete
Test Method
High Strength
ASTM C 39
ASTM C 39
ASTM C 78
Abrasion Resistance
ASTM C 944
Low Permeability
ASTM C 1202
Chloride Penetration
AASHTO T
259/260
Low Absorption
ASTM C 642
2% to 5%
ASTM C 469
High-Value
Concrete
High-Early-Strength
Concrete
at 3 to 12 hours or 1 to 3 days
High-Value
Concrete
High-Early-Strength
Concrete
May be achieved by
High-Value
Concrete
High-Early-Strength
Concrete
May be achieved by
High-Value
Concrete
Chemical admixtures
High-Strength Concrete
High-Value
Concrete
High-strength concrete
by definition
28 day compr. strength
70 MPa (10,000 psi)
High-Value
Concrete
High-Value
Concrete
Recent studies:
High-Value
Concrete
High-Strength Concrete
Placing, Consolidation, and Curing
High-Value
Concrete
High-Durability Concrete
High-Value
Concrete
High-Durability Concrete
Durability Issues That HPC Can Address
High-Value
Concrete
Abrasion Resistance
Blast Resistance
Permeability
Carbonation
Freeze-Thaw Resistance
Chemical Attack
Alkali-Silica Reactivity
High-Durability Concrete
Confederation Bridge, Northumberland Strait,
Prince Edward Island/New Brunswick, 1997
High-Value
Concrete
Cement:
Fly ash:
Silica fume:
w/c:
Water Red.:
HRWR:
Air:
91d strength:
398 kg/m3
45 kg/m3
32 kg/m3
0.30
1.7 L/m3
15.7 L/m3
5-8%
60 MPa
(671 lb/yd3)
(76 lb/yd3)
(72 lb/yd3)
(47 oz/yd3)
(83 oz/yd3)
(8700 psi)
Self-Consolidating Concrete
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) also
known as self-compacting concrete
flows and consolidates on its own
Increased amount of
High-Value
Concrete
Fine material
(i.e. fly ash or limestone filler)
HRWR/Superplasticizers
Self-Consolidating Concrete
High-Value
Concrete
297 kg/m3
(500 lb/yd3)
Slag cement
128 kg/m3
(215 lb/yd3)
Coarse aggregate
675 kg/m3
(1,137 lb/yd3)
Fine aggregate
Water
170 kg/m3
(286 lb/yd3)
(35 oz/yd3)
Properties:
High strength 200 MPa
(can be produced to 810 MPa)
Very low porosity
High-Value
Concrete
Unit
80 MPa
RPC
MPa (psi)
80 (11,600)
200 (29,000)
MPa (psi)
MPa (psi)
7 (1000)
40 (5800)
8 (1160)
2
275
0
1.2
High-Value
Concrete
uctal
Raw Material
Components
High-Value
Concrete
Cement
Sand
Silica quartz
Silica fume
Micro-Fibres - metallic or poly-vinyl acetate
Mineral fillers - Nano-fibres
Superplasticizer
Water
uctal
710 kg/m3
230 kg/m3
210 kg/m3
1020 kg/m3
Silica fume
Crushed
Quartz
Sand
Fibres
kg/m3
40 - 160
13 kg/m3
140 kg/m3
High-Value
Concrete
Superplasticizer
Total water
No aggregates !
uctal
28 - 30%
Silica fume
9 10%
Crushed
Quartz
8.5 9%
Sand
42 43%
Fibres
Superplasticizer
1.7 6.5%
0.6%
5.5 6%
High-Value
Concrete
Total water
w/c = 0.20
No aggregates !