Concrete with a Crack Treated by Silane Soakage

If a crack appears in marine or concrete structures due to chloride corrosion, it will be a convenient channel for the chloride to penetrate into the concrete and easily corrode the steel bars and damage the concrete. A concrete specimen with a 0.2mm wide crack was prepared. After the specimen was soaked in a silane solution, emulsion and gel, a chloride ion corrosion test was carried out. The analysis of two dimensional chloride content shows that the silane soakage treatment of cracked concrete seals the crack and prevents further corrosion.     

Influence of Transverse Flexural Crack on Chloride Penetration in Concrete

The mechanism for chloride penetration in cracked concrete and its major impact factors were analyzed. As a result, a revised chloride diffusion model based on Fick's Law was built by dual porous medium model. Then several cracked reinforced concrete beams self-anchored with sustained flexural loads were immersed in the 5% NaCl solution with the condition of dry-wet cycles. After 15 times of dry-wet cycles, the rapid chloride testing (RCT) was used for the determination of chloride ion content of the powder at each cracked sections. The test results show that: 1) with the condition of dry-wet cycles, the chloride content will occur a peak in the surface 20mm concrete, so the depth for surface convection zone can be assumed to be 15~20 mm; 2) when the crack width is less than 0.3mm, the equivalent chloride diffusion coefficient increases steadily, which agrees well with model's prediction; when the crack width is larger than 0.3mm, the equivalent chloride diffusion coefficient augments rapidly and influence of convection on chloride penetration becomes more significant; 3) the deterioration factor for equivalent chloride diffusion coefficient in flexural cracked concrete is directly correlative with crack width, which can be expressed by second order power function or separate function.     

Theoretical and Experimental Study on the Deformation of Pipe Rotary-draw Bending

Deformation of pipe during rotary-draw bending is studied theoretically and experimentally.The effect of main technical parameters on the change of wall thickness and section flattening are analyzed with plastic FEM software,meanwhile the variety of wall thickness and section flattening in different location of pipe are studied experimentally.The result shows: the smaller R/D,the bigger the wall thickness change.The effect of t/D on wall thickness change is weak.The dimension and position of the mandrel have a big impact on wall thickness and section flattening.The conclusion is helpful to improve the quality of the rotary-draw bending of pipe.     

Experimental Study on Shear Strength of High Strength Concrete Columns

On basis of the experiment on sixteen high strength concrete columns, their shear behaviors are analysed. The effects of shear-span ratio and axial compression ratio on failure behavior, cracking shear and shear strength are analysed. The authors have discussed the suitability of the design equations for shear strength in the code. This experimental study on shear strength of high strength concrete frame columns is the first one in this field at home and the results can be served as reference for the code of high strength concrete design.     

Experimental Study on Size Effect of Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams

Reinforced concrete specimens with concrete compressive strength varied from 46.5 to 50.6 MPa and with depth of cross section from 250 mm to 1 000 mm subjected to bending were tested. Size effects of flexural behavior with respect to bending capacity and deformation capacity were investigated based on the analysis of the test results and those of high-strength specimens (fcu=72.1~72.4 MPa) of which the geometry and reinforcement layouts were identical to those of specimens tested in this study. It is shown that beam depth does not has any apparent influence on nominal cracking moment, nominal yield moment and nominal ultimate moment, and that it has significant influence on displacement ductility and plastic rotation capacity of plastic hinges of members. For normal-strength concrete specimens and high-strength concrete specimens, both the displacement ductility and the plastic rotation capacity decrease with the increasing of depth in the similar ways, and are independent of concrete strength. It is also demonstrated that the lengths of plastic hinges of members with different depth and concrete strength are approximately equal to the depth.     

Experimental Study about the Plasma Activated Water on the Performance of the Concrete

A new good idea to improve the performance of the concrete by plasma activated water is put forward. The work principle of electrohydraulic impulsed technolaqe for producing plasma activated water is introduced. Some experimental data of improving the performance of the concrete by the plasma activated water are reported. The study shows that improving the performance of concrete by plasma activated water is practical and the view points provided by the authors is correct.     

Experimental Study on Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened With Ferrocement Mortar

Experimental research on flexural behavior of the different grade RC beams strengthened with ferrocement mortar through six RC beams is carried out. The matching of original component concrete to the composite mortar strength rank is studied and its influence on bending strength, the crack-resisting capacity and the bending stiffness of RC beams is analyzed. Based on plane cross-section assumption and the experimental results, the formulas of the theoretical ultimate strength capacity and stiffness are brought forward. The calculated results fit well with the experimental results, to provide a theoretical reference for actual engineering designs.     

Experimental Study about Activated Water Generated by Electro-hy draulic Impulse Improving the Mechanical Performance of Concrete

A new good idea named Electro-hydraulic Impulse is described in the paper. Electro-hydraulic impulse is a process which integrates strong electrical field, strong magnetic field, ultrasonic wave, radiation of light and cavitation. With it, a kind of water named strongly polar activated water is generated. Using strongly polar activated water to make concrete blocks, the mechanical performance of concrete can be improved greatly. With the proper parameters, the compression strength of concrete can be increased by 48% percent. This has been proved by some experiments.     

The Experimental Study on Size Effects on Axial Compression Performances of Reinforced Concrete Column under Repeated Load

The size effects on axial compression performances of reinforced concrete column under repeated load are needed. Specimens were designed and tested in accordance with the relevant similarity, whose geometric dimensions are: 400 mm×400 mm×1 200 mm, 600 mm×600 mm×1 800 mm and 800 mm×800 mm×2 400 mm. The result of the experiment, the failure characteristics, crack development process, strength, peak stress, peak strain and stiffness of various specimens were comparatively analyzed. The results show that, within size range of this test, size effect exists on performances of columns.