• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.309-324
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• 2024

Internal curing, a widely used method for mitigating early-age shrinkage in concrete, also offers notable advantages for concrete durability. This paper explores the potential of internal curing by partial replacement of sand with fine lightweight aggregate for enhancing the behavior of high-performance concrete at elevated temperatures. Such a technique may prove economical and safe for the construction of skyscrapers, where explosive spalling of high-performance concrete in fire is a potential hazard. To reach this aim, the physico-mechanical features of internally cured high-strength concrete specimens, including mass loss, compressive strength, strain at peak stress, modulus of elasticity, stress-strain curve, toughness, and flexural strength, were investigated under different temperature exposures; and to predict some of these mechanical properties, a number of equations were proposed. Based on the experimental results, an advanced stress-strain model was proposed for internally cured high-performance concrete at different temperature levels, the results of which agreed well with the test data. It was observed that the replacement of 10% of sand with pre-wetted fine lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) not only did not reduce the compressive strength at ambient temperature, but also prevented explosive spalling and could retain 20% of its ambient compressive strength after heating up to 800℃. It was then concluded that internal curing is an excellent method to enhance the performance of high-strength concrete at elevated temperatures.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1990년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.39-44
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• 1990

This experimental study is performed by using artificial lightweight aggregate manufactured in laboratory, and the test results of it are compared with those using foreign materials in respect of design compressive strength, unit weight. The tests on strength characteristics such as bending, splitting tensile strength and on mechanical characteristics including σ-εcurve, elastic modulus, poisson's ratio are performed to provide the fundamental data required for the design. From this study, it is possible to obtain the high-strength concrete having compressive strength of 500 kg/㎠ and unit weight of 1.85-2.0 t/㎥. And also it is recommended that sandlightweight concrete having high specfic strength is more practical for general use.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집(II)
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• pp.477-480
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• 2006

Normally, with all ensuring the fire resistance structure as a method of setting the required cover thickness to fire, the RC is significantly affected from the standpoint of its structural stability that the compressive strength and elastic modulus is reduced by fire. Especially, high strength concrete and lightweight aggregate concrete is occurred serious fire performance deterioration by explosive spalling. Thus, this study is concerned with explosive spalling of lightweight concrete using structural lightweight aggregate. From the experimental test result, lightweight aggregate concrete is happened explosive spalling. The decrease of cross section caused by explosive spalling made sharp increasing gradient of inner temperature.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.449-455
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• 2022

콘크리트는 가장 많이 사용되는 건설재료이다. 콘크리트의 비교적 높은 자중은 압축강도 발현과 수축저항성에서 이점을 갖지만, 초장대교량이나 초고층빌딩에 적용되기에는 구조물 자체의 무게가 큰 폭으로 증가하게 되어 거대 구조물의 형상을 제약하는 조건이 되기도 한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하고자, 경량골재를 사용하는 경량 콘크리트 개발이 많이 진행되어 왔으나, 경량 골재의 경우 다공질 구조로 인해 자체 강도가 작기 때문에, 일반적으로 경량 콘크리트는 일반 콘크리트에 비해서 낮은 강도를 가지게 된다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 경량 콘크리트의 한계점을 극복한 경량을 유지하면서 고강도를 만족시키는 건설재료를 개발하고자 하였다. 중공 유리 마이크로스피어를 낮은 물-시멘비율의 매트릭스에 다량으로 사용하는 방법을 적용해 보았으며, 네 가지 다른 종류의 마이크로스피어를 사용하여 그 적용성을 살펴보았다. 실험결과, 마이크로스피어의 종류와 관계 없이 밀도 1.7 g/cm³를 유지하면서 압축강도 60 MPa와 80 MPa를 각각 상온양생과 고온양생 조건에서 만족하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1998년도 봄 학술발표회논문집(II)
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• pp.513-518
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• 1998

In general, flexural strength and ductility of reinforced concrete beam with stirrup depend on the compressive strength of concrete and longitudinal steel ratio. In this study, nine reinforced high strength lightweight concrete beams and three reinforced normalweight concrete beams with stirrup were tested to investigate their behavior and to determine their ultimate moment capacity. The variable were strength of concrete (400, 500kg/$\textrm{cm}^2$) and the ratio of tensile steel content to the ratio of the balanced steel content(0.22<$\rho$/$$\rho$_b$<0.56). Test results are presented in terms of load-deflection behavior, ductility index, and cracking patterns.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1991년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.54-59
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• 1991

This experimental investigation was aimed at gathering information on the flexural properties, including ductility, of high-strength lightweight concrete members(concrete with a dry unit weight of approximately 1.85t/$\textrm{m}^3$ and with compressive strength approaching 630kg/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at 56days) under reversed cyclic loading. Two sets of six specimens each were manufactured using lightweght aggregate concrete having compressive strength of 350kg/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at 28days and 630kg/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at 56days. The test variables were the concrete strength, the amount of longitudinal reinforcement, and the spacing of ties. The test results, including hysteretic load-deflection curves, for the specimens representing columns under zero axial load are reported in this paper.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.149-159
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• 1996

최근의 건설 재료의 발전은 인공경량골재의 대량생산을 가능케 했으며 이를 사용한 경량고강도콘크리트의 발전을 가속화시켰다. 경량고강도콘크리트는 Dead Load를 감소시켜 건설비용을 경감시킬 뿐만 아니라 자중 감소로 인하여 지진 등에도 적절히 대응할 수 있는 재료이다. 그러나 대부분의 연구가 보통중량 골재를 사용한 고강도 콘크리트에 대한 연구이고, 경량골재를 사용한 고강도콘크리트에 대해서는 그 연구 결과가 많지 않다. 일반적으로 철근콘크리트 보의 전단강도는 콘크리트의 압축강도, 인장철근비, 전단스팬비, 그리고 전단보강철근의 유무에 영향을 받는다고 한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 전단스팬비(a/d = 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5)와 전단보강철근( ${\rho}_8= 0%$, 1.136%)을 변수로 한 총 8개의 시험체를 가지고 경량고강도콘크리트의 전단거동에 관한 특성을 규명하고자 전단실험을 행했다. 실험결과들은 ACI 규준식 및 Zsutty의 제안식과 비교 검토되었다. 그 결과 ACI(11-3)식과 (11-6)식은 경량콘크리트 보에서도 적용 가능하고, 또한 Zsutty 의 제안식도 전단스팬비(a/d)가 1.5인 경우를 제외하고는 적용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.106-112
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• 2001

Recent advance in material technology has accelerated the development of high strength concrete using lightweight artificial aggregates. The lightweight concrete has many advantages that the reduction of dead loads and the increase in load capacity can offer. In this study the lightweight polymer concrete using unsaturated polyester resin and lightweight aggregate were prepared and tested for testing the physical and the mechanical properties. The compressive strengths of lightweight polymer concretes with apparent specific gravity for 1.32 to 1.78 were 250 to 470 kfg/cm$^2$ and flexural strengths were measured to be in the range of 1/3-1/4 of compressive strength.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.833-847
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• 2011

We have developed a lightweight aggregate (LWA) concrete made by expanding fine sediments dredged from the Shihmen Reservoir (Taiwan) with high heat. In this study, the performance of the concrete and of prestressed concrete beams made of the sedimentary LWA were tested and compared with those made of normal-weight concrete (NC). The test results show that the lightweight concrete (LWAC) exhibited comparable time-dependent properties (i.e., compressive strength, elastic modulus, drying shrinkage, and creep) as compared with the NC samples. In addition, the LWAC beams exhibited a smaller percentage of prestress loss compared with the NC beams. Moreover, on average, the LWAC beams could resist loading up to 96% of that of the NC beams, and the experimental strengths were greater than the nominal strengths calculated by the ACI Code method. This investigation thus established that sedimentary LWA can be recommended for structural concrete applications.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.583-598
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• 2021

The composite steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns have been widely used in Structural Engineering due to their good performances. Many studies have been done on the SRC columns' performances, but they focused on the ordinary types with conventional configurations and materials. In this study, nine new types of steel reinforced lightweight aggregate concrete (SRLAC) short columns with cross-shaped (+shaped and X-shaped) steel section were tested under monotonically axial compressive load; the studied parameters included steel section ratio, steel section configuration, ties spacing, lightweight aggregate concrete (LWAC) strength, and longitudinal bars ratio. From the results, it could be found that the specimens with larger ties ratio, concrete strength, longitudinal bars ratio, and steel section ratio achieved great strength and stiffness due to the excellent interaction between the concrete and steel. The well-confined concrete core could strengthen the steel section. The ductility and toughness of the specimens were influenced by the LWAC strength, steel section ratio, and longitudinal bars ratio; in addition, larger ties ratio with smaller LWAC strength led to better ductility and toughness. The load transfer between concrete and steel section largely depends on the LWAC strength, and the ultimate strength of the new types of SRLAC short columns could be approximately predicted, referring to the codes' formulas of ordinary types of steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns. Among the used codes, the BS-5400-05 led to the most conservative results.