WORKABILITY, TESTING, AND PERFORMANCE OF SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE
WORKABILITY, TESTING, AND PERFORMANCE OF SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE
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作者:
K. Khayat
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a new category of high-performance concrete that exhibits a low resistance to flow to ensure high flowability and a moderate viscosity to maintain a homogeneous deformation through restricted sections, such as closely spaced reinforcement. This paper reviews the benefits of using SCC to facilitate the casting of densely reinforced sections and improve productivity and onsite working conditions. Workability requirements necessary to secure self-consolidation and the principles involved in proportioning such highly flowable concrete are discussed. Field-oriented tests useful in evaluating the deformability, filling capacity, and stability of SCC are presented. The performance of concrete mixes proportioned according to two main approaches needed to ensure high deformability, low risk of blockage during flow, and proper stability are compared. Such approaches involved the proportioning of concrete with a moderate water-to-cementitious material ratio (w/cm) of 0.41 and using a viscosity-enhancing admixture to increase stability, as well as mixes without any viscosity-enhancing admixture, but with lower w/cm of 0.35-0.38 to reduce free water content and provide stability. Mixes with both moderate and high contents of ternary cementitious materials were evaluated. The performance of each concrete was compared to that of a flowable concrete with 250-mm slump.