Effectiveness of vacuum saturation preconditioning regime for assessing water permeability of high performance concrete

Kai Yang, Changhui Yang, Muhammed Basheer, Adrian Long, Sreejith Nanukuttan, Yun Bai

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Abstract

Saturating high performance concrete (HPC) for assessing water permeability is a challenge. This paper reports a testing program established to determine the reliability and efficiency of an in situ preconditioning regime, the vacuum saturation, for the water permeability test. The vacuum saturation regime was examined through changing the parameters used and to justify if the field conditioning regime is able to yield similar results as in the laboratory, the results after vacuum saturation were statistically analysed and compared with that after incremental immersion. Its accuracy was further examined by additional experiments, whereas factors considered include different concrete mixes and different initial moisture conditions. The results suggest that the proposed method can eliminate the influence of moisture for different HPCs under the high initial moisture content. It is not effective, when the initial moisture content is low.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Durability of Concrete Structures
PublisherPurdue University Press
Pages35-41
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)978-1-62671-065-8
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jun 2016
Event5th International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures, ICDCS 2016 - Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Duration: 30 Jun 201601 Jul 2016

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures, ICDCS 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen, Guangdong Province
Period30/06/201601/07/2016

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Building and Construction
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • General Materials Science

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