• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.671-683
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• 2017

Commonly used concrete in general, consists of cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and water. Natural river sand is the most commonly used material as fine aggregate in concrete. One of the important requirements of concrete is that it should be durable under certain conditions of exposure. The durability of concrete is defined as its ability to resist weathering action, chemical attack or any other process of deterioration. Durable concrete will retain its original form, quality and serviceability when exposed to its environment. Deterioration can occur in various forms such as alkali aggregate expansion, freeze-thaw expansion, salt scaling by de-icing salts, shrinkage, attack on the reinforcement due to carbonation, sulphate attack on exposure to ground water, sea water attack and corrosion caused by salts. Addition of admixtures may control these effects. In this paper, an attempt has been made to replace part of fine aggregate by tailing material and part of cement by fly ash to improve the durability of concrete. The various durability tests performed were chemical attack tests such as sulphate attack, chloride attack and acid attack test and water absorption test. The concrete blend with 35% Tailing Material (TM) in place of river sand and 20% Fly Ash (FA) in place of OPC, has exhibited higher durability characteristics.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.117-143
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• 2017

The attack of environmental aggressive agents progressively reduces the structural reliability of buildings and infrastructures and, in the worst exposition conditions, may even lead to their collapse in the long period. A change in the material and sectional characteristics of a structural element, due to the environmental damaging effects, changes its mechanical behaviour and varies both the internal stress redistribution and the kinematics through which it reaches its ultimate state. To identify such a behaviour, the evolution of both the damaging process and its mechanical consequences have to be taken into account. This paper presents a computational approach for the analysis of reinforced and prestressed concrete elements under sustained loading conditions and subjected to given damaging scenarios. The effects of the diffusion of aggressive agents, of the onset and development of the corrosion state in the reinforcement and the corresponding mechanical response are studied. As known, the corrosion on the reinforcing bars influences the damaging rate in the cracking pattern evolution; hence, the damage development and the mechanical behaviours are considered as coupled phenomena. The reliability of such an approach is validated in modelling the diffusion of the aggressive agents and the changes in the mechanical response of simple structural elements whose experimental behaviour is reported in Literature. A second set of analyses studies the effects of the corrosion of the tendons of a P.C. beam and explores potentially unexpected structural responses caused by corrosion under different aggressive exposition. The role of the different types and of the different positions of the damaging agents is discussed. In particular, it is shown how the collapse mode of the beam may switch from flexural to shear type, in case corrosion is caused by a localized chloride attack in the shear span.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2016

탄소환원질화법을 이용하여 질화알루미늄(Aluminum Nitride: AlN)을 제조하는 연구를 배치당 0.7 ~ 1.5 kg 규모로 규모 확대하여 수행하였다. 고품위 알루미나 분말과 탄소(carbon black)를 배합하여 흑연 도가니에 장입하고, 노내 진공도 $2.0{\times}10^{-1}Torr$에서 온도($1,550{\sim}1,750^{\circ}C$), 시간(0.5 ~ 4 hr), $N_2$유량($10{\sim}40{\ell}/min$)을 변화시키면서 AlN을 합성하였다. 실험결과 합성온도 $1,700{\sim}1,750^{\circ}C$, 합성시간 3시간, 질소유량 $40{\ell}/min$가 적정 조건이었다. 또한, 합성한 AlN에 잔존하는 탄소를 제거하기 위하여 관상로에서 온도 $650-750^{\circ}C$, 1 - 2시간 범위에서 탈탄을 시킨 결과, 알루미나와 탄소 몰배합비 1 : 3.2 로 합성한 시료를 대기 분위기에서 탈탄온도 $750^{\circ}C$, 관상로의 회전속도 1.5 rpm에서 2시간 탈탄하는 것이 적정조건이었다. 시험 제조한 AlN의 성분 분석 결과 C 함량 835 ppm, O 함량 0.77%으로서 순도 99% 이상의 고품위 제품을 제조할 수 있었다.