NUMERICAL MODELING TO ACHIEVE CONCRETE DURABILITY FOR NEW WATERFRONT STRUCTURES OF 100 YEARS OR MORE_图文.docVIP

NUMERICAL MODELING TO ACHIEVE CONCRETE DURABILITY FOR NEW WATERFRONT STRUCTURES OF 100 YEARS OR MORE_图文 ??Ports 2010: Building on the Past, Respecting the Future ? 2010 ASCE376 ??NUMERICAL MODELING TO ACHIEVE CONCRETE ??DURABILITY FOR NEW WATERFRONT STRUCTURES OF 100 ??YEARS OR MORE, BUT AT WHAT PRICE? ??Ron Heffron, P.E.1 ??Vice President, Moffatt Nichol, 3780 Kilroy Airport Way, Suite 600, Long ??Beach, CA 90806, t: 562-426-9551, f: 562-424-7489, ??ABSTRACT ??Concrete durability design need not be black magic. Technologies and products exist ??in the market today to achieve durability goals of 100 or even 200 years. But the key ??questions that must be asked are: ??1. What is the cost? ??2. How can we convince ourselves that we can achieve these goals? ??3. What quality control measures are needed to achieve these goals? ??The U.S. Navy has been making pioneering advances in concrete durability modeling ??techniques to ensure their extensive investments in new waterfront assets are sound ??investments. This technology is available to all and is being used on commercial ??waterfront projects as well. With the advances made in numerical modeling ??techniques, it is now possible to quantitatively predict durability with decent ??accuracy. The STADIUM? model, developed by Materials Service Life of Quebec, ??Canada, has been adopted by the U.S. Navy as their service life model of choice for ??predicting marine concrete durability. The numerical model relies on the use of four ??“transport properties” that are tested from actual concrete samples to determine how ??aggressive agents such as chloride ions move through the concrete over time. ??The advent of this new technology now allows engineers to place more emphasis on ??performance specifications rather than relying only on prescriptive methods. ??Engineers can specify strength and durability (in terms of required design life) ??requirements and allow contractors to innovate to achieve the desired results. There ??