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Sustainability, Vol. 11, Pages 2962: Experimental Study on Static Mechanical Properties and Moisture Contents of Concrete Under Water Environment (Sustainability)
 


This paper presents an experiment to investigate the influence of moisture on the static mechanical properties of concrete, and prediction equations for strength and fracture toughness of concrete at different strength grades, relative to water saturation, were established respectively. The research results show that all of the compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and fracture toughness of concrete exhibit an approximately linearly decreasing trend with the increase in water saturation. For saturated concrete specimens with w/c 0.65, 0.55, 0.42 compared with dry ones, compressive strength decreases by 40.08%, 36.08%, and 33.73%, respectively, splitting tensile strength decreases by 45.39%, 42.61%, and 35.18%, respectively, and fracture toughness decreases by 57.31%, 49.92%, and 46.76%, respectively. The higher the water saturation of concrete, the larger the slope of the ascending part of the uniaxial compressive stress-strain curve, and the smaller the peak strain corresponding to the peak compressive stress, then in this case, both crack mouth opening displacement and loading point deflection corresponding to the critical load on three-point bending beam, decrease. Ingress of water causes the deformation capacity to decrease, and the toughness to weaken, which are unfavorable to the mechanical properties of concrete.


 
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