Cold region covers over 50% all the world. As an indispensable part of project, concrete is greatly affected by temperature during curing process. In this paper, through orthogonal experiment design, we studied mixing temperature, steel fiber, and water reducing agent dosage on mixture slump; influence agent, accelerating content compressive strength concrete; final microstructure scanning elec...

The monitoring of both linear and nonlinear elastic properties of a high performance concrete during curing is presented by application of compressional and shear waves. To follow the linear elastic behavior, both compressional and shear waves are used in wide band pulse echo mode. Through the value of the complex reflection coefficient between the cell material (Lucite) and the concrete within...

In this paper, the self-curing process was considered and found to be a better alternative conventional curing for concrete structures in Ethiopia. It is well known that water plays significant role of preparing construction industry. A good quality required process, but scarce Curing bridges roads difficult Ethiopia due poor scarcity water. study, Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) 600, as an alternati...

The reluctance in utilizing the advantages of Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) in Bahrain stems from two contributing factors: Lack of research or published data pertaining to locally produced SCC, and a feeling of doubt and uncertainty in the minds of practicing engineers about reliability and suitability of SCC in hardened stage. The primary aim of this study is to explore the influence of visc...

Self compacting concrete (SCC) is an innovative development of conventional concrete, which requires high binder content to increase its segregation resistance. This paper presents a comparative study on the use of different materials as binder content in SCC and their effects on the workability and strength properties are checked. Different combinations of Fly ash, Metakaolin and Saw dust ash ...

The study presents the behaviour of wood ash / OPC concrete. Chemical analysis of wood ash, bulk density, sieve analysis and specific gravity of wood ash and aggregates, consistency, setting time and slump test of the fresh paste were conducted to determine the suitability of the materials for concrete making. Mix ratio of 1:2:4 and percentage replacement level of 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40 percents ...

In this paper, the effect of super plasticizer amount, water/cement ratio, the cement, silica fume and steel micro fiber content is studied on the ultimate compressive strength of new generation of Ultra High Strength Concrete (UHSC).Known as Reactive Powder Concrete (RPC) and also have used two non-linear functions; Genetic Programming (GP) and Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH), which are t...

In this study, first, different mix design of four types of Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC), 1. SCC consisted of only nanosilica, 2. SCC included only microsilica, 3. SCC consisted of both microsilica and nanosilica and 4. SCC without microsilica and nanosilica called as control mix, were casted and tested to find out the values of the Slump Flow, L-Box and 7 and 28 days compressive strength. Th...