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UHPFRC for concrete repair
As part of the St. Lawrence Seaway lock maintenance, the current practice is to perform concrete repairs entirely with reinforced concrete, using either ordinary concrete or high performance concrete (HPC) mixtures. However, with the recent advances in the field of ultra-high performance fiber-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC), the use of this new material is considered in view of improving the overall performance of repairs. The goal is to implement repairs capable of dissipating a lot of energy before breaking when a ship hits a concrete lock wall. Numerous rehabilitation materials and methods have been experimented in the past. They all were unsuccessful due to inadequate shear and impact strength characteristics of the repair materials used. These needs can be efficiently fulfilled with UHPFRC, with their superior mechanical properties and very high energy-dissipation ability. To analyze the in-situ behavior of UHPFRC, two main mixture designs were investigated: a 160-MPa mixture containing 3% of steel fibers and a 120-MPa mixture containing 3.5% of a steel fiber blend. Thick repairs with average depths of 700 mm were carried out during the winter shut down period, in very harsh climatic conditions (-12 °C, gusty wind). The performance exhibited by the repairs after a full year shows that UHPFRCs can withstand very effectively the impacts from the transiting vessels
UHPFRC for concrete repair
As part of the St. Lawrence Seaway lock maintenance, the current practice is to perform concrete repairs entirely with reinforced concrete, using either ordinary concrete or high performance concrete (HPC) mixtures. However, with the recent advances in the field of ultra-high performance fiber-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC), the use of this new material is considered in view of improving the overall performance of repairs. The goal is to implement repairs capable of dissipating a lot of energy before breaking when a ship hits a concrete lock wall. Numerous rehabilitation materials and methods have been experimented in the past. They all were unsuccessful due to inadequate shear and impact strength characteristics of the repair materials used. These needs can be efficiently fulfilled with UHPFRC, with their superior mechanical properties and very high energy-dissipation ability. To analyze the in-situ behavior of UHPFRC, two main mixture designs were investigated: a 160-MPa mixture containing 3% of steel fibers and a 120-MPa mixture containing 3.5% of a steel fiber blend. Thick repairs with average depths of 700 mm were carried out during the winter shut down period, in very harsh climatic conditions (-12 °C, gusty wind). The performance exhibited by the repairs after a full year shows that UHPFRCs can withstand very effectively the impacts from the transiting vessels
UHPFRC for concrete repair
Maltais Alexandrine (author) / Petrov Nikola (author) / Thibault Michel (author) / Bissonnette Benoit (author)
2018
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