COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2023, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (1): 94-99.DOI: 10.19936/j.cnki.2096-8000.20230128.011

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Study on pore structure and permeability of basalt fiber reinforced concrete under confining pressure

HU Xiuyue, PANG Jianyong, LEI Chengxiang   

  1. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
  • Received:2022-05-26 Online:2023-01-28 Published:2023-02-24

Abstract: The pore structure, mechanical properties and impermeability of concrete with different basalt fiber contents under confining pressure were studied based on experiments. The uniaxial compression and splitting tests of basalt fiber concrete with 0 %, 0.05 %, 0.1 %, 0.2 % and 0.3 % fiber content were carried out by uniaxial compression machine. The triaxial compression and permeability tests under different confining pressures (4 MPa, 5 MPa, 6 MPa, 7 MPa, 8 MPa, 9 MPa and 10 MPa) were carried out by TAW-2000 servo triaxial testing machine. Combined with automatic rapid specific surface area and porosity analyzer and scanning electron microscope (SEM), the internal pore changes and micro-structure of the specimens were obtained. The influence of basalt fiber on the strength, toughness, pore structure and impermeability of concrete specimens was analyzed. The results show that the incorporation of basalt fiber can greatly improve the mechanical properties and ductility of concrete specimens, and the compressive and tensile strengths of specimens are the highest at 0.05% of fiber incorporation, and the toughness of specimens is the best at 0.1% of fiber incorporation, but excessive fiber incorporation will reduce the ability of specimens to resist external load. Besides, the incorporation of fiber can reduce the pore diameter and porosity of the specimen, forming a good bonding effect between fiber and concrete material and eventually form a spatial mesh structure inside the specimen to enhance the integrity and reduce the generation and expansion of cracks. Under different confining pressures, the permeability of basalt fiber concrete is always smaller than that of plain concrete, the incorporation of fibers reduces the porosity of concrete materials and improves the permeability resistance, and the increase of the confining pressure makes the permeability of both kind of concrete specimens decrease continuously until it is in a stable state while the permeability of basalt fiber concrete specimens decreases more gently.

Key words: basalt fiber, peak stress, toughness, porosity, permeability, microstructure, composites

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