Estimation of Compressive Strength of Recycled Aggregate High Strength Concrete Using Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity

Abstract:

This study used the ultrasonic pulse velocity method, one of the non-destructive test methods that does not damage the building for maintenance of to-be-constructed concrete structures using recycled aggregates in order to estimate the compressive strength of high strength concrete structure using recycled coarse aggregate and provide elementary resources for technological establishment of ultrasonic pulse velocity method. 200 test pieces of high strength concrete 40, 50MPa using recycled coarse aggregate were manufactured by replacement rates (0, 30, 50, 100%) and age (1, 7, 28, 180days), and air curing was executed to measure compressive strength and wave velocity. As the result of compressive strength measurement, the one with age of 180day and design strength of 40MPa was 43.69MPa, recycled coarse aggregate replacement rate of 30% 50% 100% were 42.82, 41.22, 37.35MPa, and 50MPa was 52.50MPa, recycled coarse aggregate replacement rate of 30% 50% 100% were 49.02, 46.66, 45.30MPa, and while it could be seen that the test piece substituted with recycled aggregate was found to have lower strength than the test piece with natural aggregate only, but it still reached the design strength to a degree. The correlation of compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity was found and regression analysis was conducted. The estimation formula for compressive strength of high strength concrete using recycled coarse aggregate was found to be F_c=0.069V_p^4.05, R²=0.66

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 605)
• Pages: 147-150
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.605.147
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Seong Uk Hong, Seung Hun Kim, Yong Taeg Lee*
• Keywords: Compressive Strength, Estimation, High-Strength Concrete (HSC), Recycled Aggregate (RA), Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity

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