Yang, K orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-2710, Yang, C, Basheer, M orcid.org/0000-0002-0835-8029 et al. (3 more authors) (2016) Effectiveness of vacuum saturation preconditioning regime for assessing water permeability of high performance concrete. In: Xing, F, Zhu, J-H and Han, N, (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Durability of Concrete Structures. 2016 ICDCS Conference, 30 Jun - 01 Jul 2016, Shenzhen, China. Purdue University Press , Lafayette, IN, USA , pp. 35-41. ISBN 978-1-62671-065-8
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.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) > Institute for Resilient Infrastructure (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2017 11:16 |
Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2020 13:06 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284316108 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Purdue University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.5703/1288284316108 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111503 |