Effects and interactions of temperature and stress-level related damage on permeability of concrete
By M. Choińska, A. Khelidj, G. Chatzigeorgiou, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot. 2007
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The objective of this study is to investigate damage-temperature-stress level-permeability interactions in structural concrete. The tests are performed on hollow cylindrical concrete specimens, subjected to compressive loading and temperature up to 150 °C. The results emphasize that at stress levels lower than 80% of the peak stress, the variation of permeability is small and it is slightly influenced by the stress. As a matter of fact, the permeability under load is smaller than the permeability measured after unloading. As the load exceeds 80% of the peak stress, micro-cracking increases rapidly, causing an increase of the permeability and a greater sensitivity to the applied load, i.e. a noticeable difference between the permeability measured under load and after unloading, the first becoming greater than the latter. In the post-peak phase the increase of permeability is much larger due to significant crack width growth. The increase of permeability with the applied load seems to be greater with temperature, inducing further alterations of concrete and dilation of the porous structure of the material. Finally, the experimental results seem to agree with the format of coupled evolution of the permeability due to damage and temperature assumed by Gawin et al. [D. Gawin, C.E. Majorana, B.A. Schrefler, Numerical analysis of hygro-thermal behaviour and damage of concrete at high temperature, Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Materials 4 (1999) 37–74.].
Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering
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- Evaluation of pore structures and cracking in cement paste exposed to elevated temperatures by X-ray computed tomography (2013, background): “The significance of these features in assessments of heated concrete has led engineers to evaluate changes in themechanical properties [3–10], color [11–14], evolution of cracking [10,15–21], and spalling [10,22–29] of fire-damaged concrete in relation to various temperatures, and to develop methods”
- Crack Effects on Gas and Water Permeability of Concretes (2009, background): “The evolution of concrete permeability could be regarded on the one hand, as a function of diffusemicrocracking, related to low level damage (from0 to15%) before thepeak load and, on theotherhand, as a function of themacro-crack characteristics created beyond the peak load [1].”
- Temperature, Pore Pressure and Mass Variation of Concrete Subjected to High Temperature -- Experimental and Numerical Discussion on Spalling Risk (2010, background): “Indeed, there is an important link between the permeability and the damage of concrete [27].”