Inspection of Thermo-Mechanical Behavior on Sintered Fly Ash Aggregate in Pavement Quality Concrete

Abstract:

Conventional concrete pavement is more efficient towards mechanical load but combing with environmental loads compromises serviceability. This paper mainly focuses on utilizing sintered fly ash (SFA) aggregate to partially replace coarse aggregate in pavement quality concrete. Incorporating SFA aggregate in concrete pavement enhances the thermal behavior of rigid pavement due to higher voids and lower thermal conductivity. Coarse aggregate was partially replaced with SFA aggregate at an interval of 10 % till 40% by volumetric replacement. Pavement quality concrete (PQC) was designed as per Indian standards with a fixed water-cement ratio of 0.36 to achieve a minimum of 40 N/mm2 compressive strength. Compressive, split tensile and flexural strengths were inspected as mechanical behavior and thermal conductivity was examine as thermal behavior of different SFA mixed PQC. It has been observed that there is a slight decrement in mechanical strength by incorporating SFA in PQC but the thermal property of PQC was improved. Overall, it can be concluded that incorporating SFA at a certain level enhances the combined thermo-mechanical properties of PQC.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 951)
• Pages: 167-172
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-bZLzA9
• Online since: August 2023
• Authors: Prakash Somani*, Arun Gaur
• Keywords: Pavement Quality Concrete, Sintered Fly Ash Aggregate, Thermal Stresses

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