durability index performance of high strength concretes made based on different standard portland cements高强度混凝土的耐久性性能指数基于不同标准的波特兰水泥.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 410909, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/410909 Research Article Durability Index Performance of High Strength Concretes Made Based on Different Standard Portland Cements Stephen O. Ekolu1 and Sheena Murugan2 1 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 Ready-Mix, Lafarge Industries SA (pty) Ltd., 35 Westfield Road, Longmeadow Business Estate Ext. 11,1609, Private Bag X2, Gallo Manor 2052, Johannesburg, South Africa Correspondence should be addressed to Stephen O. Ekolu, stephen.ekolu@wits.ac.za Received 19 November 2011; Accepted 28 February 2012 Academic Editor: Gai-Fei Peng Copyright © 2012 S. O. Ekolu and S. Murugan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A consortium of three durability index test methods consisting of oxygen permeability, sorptivity and chloride conductivity were used to evaluate the potential influence of four (4) common SANS 10197 cements on strength and durability of concrete. Twenty four (24) concrete mixtures of water-cement ratios (w/c’s) = 0.4, 0.5, 0.65 were cast using the cement types CEM I 42.5N, CEM II/A- M (V-L) 42.5N, CEM IV/B 32.5R and CEM II/A-V 52.5N. The concretes investigated fall in the range of normal strength, medium strength and high strength concretes. It was found that the marked differences in oxygen permeability and sorptivity results observed at normal and medium strengths tended to vanish at high concrete strengths. Also, the durab