COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2022, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (9): 48-53.DOI: 10.19936/j.cnki.2096-8000.20220928.007

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Electrical conductivity of cement reinforced with recycled CFRP

WU Zhen-hua, LIU Yao, ZHANG Zhi-fang*   

  1. Research Center for Wind Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Received:2022-04-11 Online:2022-09-28 Published:2022-09-27

Abstract: As high-performance materials, Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) has been widely used in many fields. However, due to the large amount of FRP scraps generated during the production of CFRP, this may bring serious environmental problems, and also cause a waste of resources. In this paper, the CFRP scraps generated during production was treated and added into cement, and the effect of recycled CFRP waste on the mechanical properties and electrical conductivity of cement was studied. The results show that proper amount of recycled CFRP can enhance the compressive and flexural properties of cement. When the amount of recycled CFRP in cement is not high, the reduction in electric resistance of cement is not remarkable. When the amount of recycled CFRP in cement reaches 4%, the electric resistance of cement-based materials decreases sharply. When the amount of recycled CFRP in cement continues to increase, a conductive path mechanism is formed in cement by the carbon fiber in recycled CFRP, and the electric resistance has been reduced to a minimum value and does not change significantly with the age. The study also shows that the electric resistance of cement increases with the increase of the age for cement specimens, and it increases first and then decreases with the decrease of water content in the drying process. Current research can not only help to solve the problem caused by the CFRP waste, but also to greatly relieve the environmental pressure brought by CFRP waste.

Key words: recycled CFRP, scraps, mechanical property, electric resistance, water content

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