High-strength seawater sea-sand Engineered Cementitious Composites (SS-ECC): Mechanical performance and probabilistic modeling

By Bo-Tao Huang, Jia-Qi Wu, Jiangtao Yu, Jian-Guo Dai, Christopher K. Y. Leung. 2020

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Abstract Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) is an advanced fiber-reinforced concrete exhibiting multiple-cracking and strain-hardening under tension. This study aims to explore the feasibility of producing high-strength seawater sea-sand Engineered Cementitious Composites (SS-ECC) for marine and coastal applications facing the shortage of freshwater and river/manufactured sand. The effects of key composition parameters including the sea-sand size (1.18/2.36/4.75 mm), the polyethylene fiber length (6/12/18 mm), and the fiber volume dosage (1.0/1.5/2.0%) on the mechanical performance of SS-ECC were comprehensively investigated. SS-ECC with tensile strength over 8 MPa, ultimate tensile strain about 5%, and compressive strength over 130 MPa were achieved. Using seawater and sea-sand had almost no negative effects on the 28-day mechanical properties of high-strength ECC. For SS-ECC, increasing fiber length and dosage enhanced the tensile strain capacity, and sea-sand size had limited effects on the tensile performance; these phenomena were interpreted by the micromechanical analysis. A probabilistic-based method was proposed to analyze the reliability of the tensile strain capacity of SS-ECC, and it showed good agreement with the experimental results. The findings provide new insights into the design and applications of ECC in marine and coastal infrastructures for improving safety, durability, sustainability, and reliability.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering

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Engineered/strain-hardening cementitious composites (ECC/SHCC) with an ultra-high compressive strength over 210 MPa (2021, background): “The rupture of some PE fibers indicates that the fiber strength is effectively utilized in UHSECC due to improved fiber/matrix interfacial bond [23,37].”