scholarly journals Effects of High Temperatures on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Carbonated Ordinary Concrete

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qifang Xie ◽  
Lipeng Zhang ◽  
Shenghua Yin ◽  
Baozhuang Zhang ◽  
Yaopeng Wu

Fires are always known for seriously deteriorating concrete in structures, especially for those with certain carbonation due to long-time service. In this paper, 75 prism specimens were prepared and divided into four groups (three carbonated groups and one uncarbonated group). Specimens were tested under different temperatures (20, 300, 400, 500, 600, and 700°C), exposure times (3, 4, and 6 hours), and cooling methods (water and natural cooling). Surface characteristics, weight loss rate, and residual mechanical properties (strength, initial elastic modulus, peak, and ultimate compressive strains) of carbonated concrete specimens after elevated temperatures were investigated and compared with that of the uncarbonated ones. Results show that the weight loss rates of the carbonated concrete specimens are slightly lower than that of the uncarbonated ones and that the cracks are increased with raising of temperatures. Surface colors of carbonated concrete are significantly changed, but they are not sensitive to cooling methods. Surface cracks can be evidently observed on carbonated specimens when temperature reaches 400°C. Residual compressive strength and initial elastic modulus of carbonated concrete after natural cooling are generally larger than those cooled by water. The peak and ultimate compressive strains of both carbonated and uncarbonated concrete specimens increase after heating, but the values of the latter are greater than that of the former. Finally, the constitutive equation to predict the compressive behaviors of carbonated concrete after high temperatures was established and validated by tests.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qifang Xie ◽  
Liujie Yang ◽  
Fangzheng Hu ◽  
Wenming Hao ◽  
Shenghua Yin ◽  
...  

Concrete behavior usually degrades due to freeze-thaw cycles, fire, or both. Existing studies on the degradation behavior of concrete due to exposure to high temperatures were primarily focused on unfrozen concrete. In this paper, the degradation behavior of damaged concrete, after different freeze-thaw cycles (25, 35, 45, and 55 cycles), exposure temperatures (20°C, 300°C, 400°C, and 500°C), and cooling methods (water-cooled and air-cooled), was tested with seventy-five prism specimens. The degradation behavior of the damaged concrete, such as surface characteristics, weight loss, compressive strength, peak strains, and elastic modulus, was studied and analyzed. Results show that (i) the surface color of the concrete does not change significantly throughout the test. As the number of freeze-thaw cycles and temperatures increase, the weight loss of the concrete specimens increases gradually. (ii) After freeze-thaw cycles, the relative strengths and elastic modulus of the concrete specimens significantly degrade compared with those of the unfrozen ones at same temperatures. (c) At elevated number of freeze-thaw cycles and exposure temperatures, the peak strain of the concrete increases gradually. (d) Cooling methods have different effects on the degradation of concrete under different number of freeze-thaw cycles. Finally, a uniaxial compression constitutive model for concrete after freeze-thaw cycles and then exposure to high temperatures was established and a good agreement was observed with test results.


Author(s):  
Haopeng Jiang ◽  
Annan Jiang ◽  
Fengrui Zhang

Experimental tests were conducted to study the influence of natural cooling and water cooling on the physical and mechanical properties of quartz sandstone. This study aims to understand the effect of different cooling methods on the physical and mechanical properties of quartz sandstone (such as mass, volume, density, P-wave velocity, elastic modulus, uniaxial compressive strength, etc.). The results show that the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) and elastic modulus(E) of the specimens cooled by natural-cooling and water-cooling decrease with heating temperature. At 800℃, after natural cooling and water cooling, the average value of UCS decreased by 34.65% and 57.90%, and the average value of E decreased by 87.66% and 89.05%, respectively. Meanwhile, scanning electron microscope (SEM) images were used to capture the development of microcracks and pores within the specimens after natural-cooling and water-cooling, and it was found that at the same temperature, water cooling treatment was more likely to cause microcracks and pores, which can cause more serious damage to the quartz sandstone. These results confirm that different cooling methods have different effects on the physical and mechanical properties of quartz sandstone, and provide a basis for the stability prediction of rock mass engineering such as tunnel suffering from fire.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1007-1011
Author(s):  
Zhengfa Chen ◽  
Hehua Zhu ◽  
Zhiguo Yan ◽  
Gaojv Peng

In this paper, to study mechanical properties of manufactured-sand concrete after high temperatures, experiments on the residual strength of manufactured-sand concrete were carried out under high temperatures in which raw materials performances and concrete mixture proportion were considered. The mechanism of elevated temperatures on residual strength was theoretically discussed, and the calculation formula of residual strength was given. The results indicated that with the increasing of temperature, the mass loss was small while the reducing of strength and the elastic modulus of manufactured-sand concrete were significantly.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 11833
Author(s):  
Su-Hyeon Lee ◽  
Byong-Jeong Choi

Studies involving the mechanical properties of high-strength steel (HSS) at elevated temperatures have received considerable attention in recent years. However, current research on HSS at high temperatures is lacking. As a result, the design of fire-protective steel structures with high standards is not sufficiently conservative or safe. This study investigates the effect that elevated temperatures have on the mechanical properties of ASTM A572 Gr. 50 and 60 steels. Reduction factors for the yield strength, tensile strength, and elastic modulus were derived and compared with the standard (AISC, EN1993-1-2) and previous studies (NIST). This study also provides extensive data on the reduction factors for the yield strength, tensile strength, and elastic modulus of mild steel (MS), HSS, and very-high-strength steel (VHSS). The reduction factor for the yield strength was analyzed by expanding the strain level up to 20%. Equations for the yield strength, tensile strength, and elastic modulus were proposed. In future studies, various strains should be analyzed according to the grade of the steel, with the derivation of a reduction factor that considers the plastic strain of the steel. Hence, the findings reported in this study generated a database that can be applied to fire safety design or performance-based fire-resistant design.


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sadiq ◽  
Jean-Sebastien Lecomte ◽  
Mohammed Cherkaoui

Sn–Ag–Cu (SAC) alloys are considered as good replacements of Sn–Pb alloys which are banned due to the toxic nature of Pb. But, SAC alloys have a coarse microstructure that consists of β-Sn rich and eutectic phases. Nanoindentation is a useful technique to evaluate the mechanical properties at very small length scale. In this work, continuous stiffness measurement (CSM) nanoindentation setup (CSM Instruments SA, Peseux, Switzerland) is used to determine the individual phase mechanical properties like Young's modulus and hardness at high temperatures. It is demonstrated that these properties are a function of temperature for both β-Sn rich and eutectic phases. Loadings starting from 500 μN up to 5000 μN are used with 500 μN steps and average values are presented for Young's modulus and hardness. The loading rates applied are twice that of the loadings. High temperatures result in a higher creep deformation and therefore, to avoid it, different dwell times are used at peak loads. The special pileup effect, which is more significant at elevated temperatures, is determined and incorporated into the results. A better agreement is found with the previous studies.


The analysis of the previous results of the study on concrete stress-strain behavior at elevated temperatures has been carried out. Based on the analysis, the main reasons for strength retrogression and elastic modulus reduction of concrete have been identified. Despite a significant amount of research in this area, there is a large spread in experimental data received, both as a result of compression and tension. In addition, the deformation characteristics of concrete are insufficiently studied: the coefficient of transverse deformation, the limiting relative compression deformation corresponding to the peak load and the almost complete absence of studies of complete deformation diagrams at elevated temperatures. The two testing chambers provided creating the necessary temperature conditions for conducting studies under bending compression and tension have been developed. On the basis of the obtained experimental data of physical and mechanical characteristics of concrete at different temperatures under conditions of axial compression and tensile bending, conclusions about the nature of changes in strength and deformation characteristics have been drawn. Compression tests conducted following the method of concrete deformation complete curves provided obtaining diagrams not only at normal temperature, but also at elevated temperature. Based on the experimental results, dependences of changes in prism strength and elastic modulus as well as an equation for determining the relative deformation and stresses at elevated temperatures at all stages of concrete deterioration have been suggested.


Alloy Digest ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  

Abstract BRUSH Alloy 3 offers the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any beryllium-copper alloy. It possesses an excellent combination of moderate strength, good corrosion resistance and good resistance to moderately elevated temperatures. Because of its unique physical and mechanical properties, Brush Alloy 3 finds widespread use in welding applications (RWMA Class 3), current-carrying springs, switch and instrument parts and similar components. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fatigue. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as casting, forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: Cu-454. Producer or source: Brush Wellman Inc..


2021 ◽  
pp. 009524432110203
Author(s):  
Sudhir Bafna

It is often necessary to assess the effect of aging at room temperature over years/decades for hardware containing elastomeric components such as oring seals or shock isolators. In order to determine this effect, accelerated oven aging at elevated temperatures is pursued. When doing so, it is vital that the degradation mechanism still be representative of that prevalent at room temperature. This places an upper limit on the elevated oven temperature, which in turn, increases the dwell time in the oven. As a result, the oven dwell time can run into months, if not years, something that is not realistically feasible due to resource/schedule constraints in industry. Measuring activation energy (Ea) of elastomer aging by test methods such as tensile strength or elongation, compression set, modulus, oxygen consumption, etc. is expensive and time consuming. Use of kinetics of weight loss by ThermoGravimetric Analysis (TGA) using the Ozawa/Flynn/Wall method per ASTM E1641 is an attractive option (especially due to the availability of commercial instrumentation with software to make the required measurements and calculations) and is widely used. There is no fundamental scientific reason why the kinetics of weight loss at elevated temperatures should correlate to the kinetics of loss of mechanical properties over years/decades at room temperature. Ea obtained by high temperature weight loss is almost always significantly higher than that obtained by measurements of mechanical properties or oxygen consumption over extended periods at much lower temperatures. In this paper, data on five different elastomer types (butyl, nitrile, EPDM, polychloroprene and fluorocarbon) are presented to prove that point. Thus, use of Ea determined by weight loss by TGA tends to give unrealistically high values, which in turn, will lead to incorrectly high predictions of storage life at room temperature.


2021 ◽  
Vol 887 ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
G.A. Sabirova ◽  
R.R. Safin ◽  
N.R. Galyavetdinov

This paper presents the findings of experimental studies of the physical and mechanical properties of wood-filled composites based on polylactide (PLA) and vegetable filler in the form of wood flour (WF) thermally modified at 200-240 °C. It also reveals the dependence of the tensile strength, impact strength, bending elastic modulus, and density of composites on the amount of wood filler and the temperature of its thermal pre-modification. We established that an increase in the concentration of the introduced filler and the degree of its heat treatment results in a decrease of the tensile strength, impact strength and density of composite materials, while with a lower binder content, thermal modification at 200 °C has a positive effect on bending elastic modulus. We also found that 40 % content of a wood filler heated to 200 °C is sufficient to maintain relatively high physical and mechanical properties of composite materials. With a higher content of a wood filler, the cost can be reduced but the quality of products made of this material may significantly deteriorate. However, depending on the application and the life cycle of this product, it is possible to develop a formulation that includes a high concentration of filler.


2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Arifin ◽  
Abu Bakar Sulong ◽  
Norhamidi Muhamad ◽  
Junaidi Syarif

Hydroxyapatite (HA) has been widely used in biomedical applications due to its excellent biocompatibility. However, Hydroxyapatite possesses poor mechanical properties and only tolerate limited loads for implants. Titanium is well-known materials applied in implant that has advantage in mechanical properties but poor in biocompatibility. The combination of the Titanium alloy and HA is expected to produce bio-implants with good in term of mechanical properties and biocompatabilty. In this work, interaction and mechanical properties of HA/Ti6Al4V was analyzed. The physical and mechanical properties of HA/Ti6Al4V composite powder obtained from compaction (powder metallurgy) of 60 wt.% Ti6Al4V and 40 wt.% HA and sintering at different temperatures in air were investigated in this study. Interactions of the mixed powders were investigated using X-ray diffraction. The hardness and density of the HA/Ti6Al4V composites were also measured. Based on the results of XRD analysis, the oxidation of Ti began at 700 °C. At 1000 °C, two phases were formed (i.e., TiO2 and CaTiO3). The results showed that the hardness HA/Ti6Al4V composites increased by 221.6% with increasing sintering temperature from 700oC to 1000oC. In contrast, the density of the composites decreased by 1.9% with increasing sintering temperature. 


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