• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.725-730
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• 2002

The durability of concrete involves resistance to freeze-thaw action, corrosion, permeation, carbonation, chemical attack and so on. Generally, properties of concrete have been well understood under the separate action of these deterioration mechanisms. However, in practice, the degradation of concrete usually is the result of combined action of physical and chemical attack and can be accelerated by the combined action of several deterioration mechanisms. In the present study, to evaluate the combined deterioration by freeze-thaw action and seawater attack, ground granulated blast-furnace slag or silica fume concrete with water or seawater as mixing water was exposed to 210 cycles of freeze-thaw action. Tests were conducted to determined the relative dynamic modulus of elasticity and compressive strength. Furthermore, The XRD, SEM and EDS analysis were performed on the deteriorated part of concrete due to freeze-thaw action and seawater attack.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.593-598
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• 2002

Recently, as industrialization is rapidly growing and the standard of life is rising, the quantities of waste glasses have been hastily increased and most of them are not recycled but abandoned. It causes some problems such as the waste of natural resources and environmental pollution. Therefore, in this study freeze-thaw resistance test was conducted to analyze the properties of concrete containing waste glasses as fine aggregates and containing industrial by-products (fly ashes, silica fumes). As a results, it was found that freeze-thaw resistance decreases as the content of waste glasses increases. Also, the content of fly ash doesn't affect to the freeze-thaw resistance, and freeze-thaw resistance decreases with tile increase of silica fume contents.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.545-550
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• 2002

Concrete is one of the essential structural materials in the construction. But, concrete consists of many materials and is affected by many factors such as properties of materials, site environmental situations, and skill of constructor. Therefore, concrete mixes depend on experiences of experts. However, it is more and more difficult to determine concrete mixes design by empirical means because more ingredients like mineral and chemical admixtures are included. Artificial Neural Networks(ANN) are a mimic models of human brain to solve a complex nonlinear problem. They are powerful pattern recognizers and classifiers, also their computing abilities have been proven in the fields of prediction, estimation and pattern recognition. Here, among them, the back propagation network and radial basis function network are used. Compositions of high-performance concrete mixes are eight components(water, cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate, fly ash, silica fume, superplasticizer and air-entrainer). Compressive strength and slump are measured. The results show that neural networks are proper tools to minimize the uncertainties of the design of concrete mixtures.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.75-86
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• 1989

본 본문에서는 실리카 흄을 사용한 고강도 콘크리트의 제조와 역학적 특성 및 최적 배합에 대한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 본 본문에서는 주요 실험변수를 물-시멘트비와 혼화재인 실리카 흄의 혼입량으로 정하였으며, 압축강도 및 휨강도와 합렬인장강도 특성을 분석하였다. 실리카흄의 혼입으로 강도가 증가함을 발견하였으나 어느 범위이상의 과도한 혼입은 오히려 강도를 저해하는 것으로 나타났다. 물-시멘트비 0.28에서는 실리카 흄 혼입량이 5%일 때 최대의 강도가 나타났고, 물-시멘트비 0.40에서는 15%, 물-시멘트비 0.55에서는 20%혼입에서 가장 큰 강도가 나타났다. 또한 본 연구에서는 압축강도와 물-시멘트비 및 실리카 흄량 사이의 관계를 도출하여 그 관게식을 제시하였으며, 이 식으로부터 소요강도를 위한 본 배합변수를 유추할 수 있다. 본 연구결과 물-시멘트비 효과와 실리카 흄의 효과가 상쇄되는 구간이 존재하며, 따라서 이들 효과를 함께 고려한 최적배합을 도출하여 제시하고 있다.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.95-104
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• 1989

In order to discuss the engineering properties of carbon fiber reinforced cement composites with silica fume and silica powder, experimental studies on the CFRC were carried out. The types of fiber used which are in CFRC are PAN-based carbon fiber and Pitch-based carbon fiber. To examine the effects of types, Lengths, contents of carbon fibers and matrices, their properties of fresh and hardened CFRC were tested: According to the test results, the process technology of lightweight CFRC is developed and their optimum mix proportions are successfully proposed. Also, it can be conclueded that the reinforcement of carbon fiber is considerably effective in improving tensile strength, flexural strength, toughness and loss of shrinkage of CFRC compared with conventional mortar.

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.77-78
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• 1993

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.187-188
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• 1993

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2002

The purpose of this research was to evaluate on the properties of fresh and hardened high-performance concrete(HPC) incorporating high-reactivity metakaolin(HRM). Setting time, heat of hydration, compressive strength, resistance to chloride-ion penetration, and repeated freezing and thawing test were carried out in order to investigate the properties of fresh and hardened state concrete. The properties of the HRM concrete were also compared with those of the portland cement concrete and silica fume(SF) concrete. The laboratory test results indicate that HRM material can be used as a supplementary cementitious material to produce high-performance concrete.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.391-394
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• 2003

Effects of the polymer-binder ratio and slag content on the properties of combined wet/dry-cured polymer-modified mortars using granulated blast-furnace slag are examined. Results shows that the flexural, compressive, tensile and adhesion in tension strengths of polymer-modified mortar using the slag tend to increase with increasing slag content, and is inclined to increase with increasing polymer-binder ratio. In particular, the polymer-modified mortars with slag content of 40% provide about 20% higher tensile strength than unmodified mortars. Such high strength development is attributed to the high tensile strength of polymer and the improved bond between cement hydrates and aggregates because of the addition of polymer.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.587-607
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• 2012

The purpose of this research is to propose a design technique of concrete mix proportions satisfying service life through genetic algorithm (GA) and neural network (NN). For this, thirty mix proportions and the related diffusion coefficients in high performance concrete are analyzed and fitness function for diffusion coefficient is obtained considering mix components like w/b (water to binder ratio), cement content, mineral admixture (slag, flay ash and silica fume) content, sand and coarse aggregate content. Through averaging the results of 10 times GA simulations, relative errors to the previous data decrease lower than 5.0% and the simulated mix proportions are verified with the experimental results. Assuming the durability design parameters, intended diffusion coefficient for intended service life is derived and mix proportions satisfying the service life are obtained. Among the mix proportions, the most optimized case which satisfies required concrete strength and the lowest cost is selected through GA algorithm. The proposed technique would be improved with the enhancement of comprehensive data set including wider the range of diffusion coefficients.