Induced Anisotropic Gas Permeability of Concrete due to Coupled Effect of Drying and Temperature

Abstract:

An experimental campaign is carried out to study the effect of drying shrinkage and temperature on multi-directional gas permeability of dry concrete. Thermal loadings up to 250°C are applied on concrete samples in cylinder (11×22) and dog-bone forms (total length of 61 cm). Samples are sliced for permeability measurements. Permeabilities in longitudinal and radial directions are addressed. The cylinder samples are first sliced then dried or heated whilst the dog-bone samples are first dried or heated then sliced. The average of initial intrinsic permeability for the slices (5 cm height, 11 cm diameter) obtained from the (11×22) samples is found isotropic and equal to 2.93×10^-17 m2. In this case, drying shrinkage is isotropic. Furthermore, it is shown that for the dog-bone samples, drying shrinkage may induce micro-cracks preferentially in a certain direction which induces permeability anisotropy. Finally, the evolution of the normalized intrinsic permeability with respect to initial permeability versus temperature is found isotropic. An exponential fitting of intrinsic permeability versus temperature is found based on experimental measurements.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 711)
• Pages: 871-878
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.711.871
• Online since: September 2016
• Authors: Mohamad Ezzedine El Dandachy*, Matthieu Briffaut, Stefano Dal Pont, Frederic Dufour
• Keywords: Concrete, Drying Shrinkage, Gas Permeability, Longitudinal/Radial, Thermal Loading

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