Performance of powdered polymerized concrete at high temperature degrees

Abstract EN

In the domain of concrete modification by using polymers, the present study, focused on the use of Carboxy-Methyl Cellulose (CMC) as a watersoluble polymer and investigate its effects on the behavior of concrete.

The study include two issues, the first one is the effect of polymer adding method on mechanical properties of concrete such as compressive strength, tensile strength and modulus of elasticity in additional to impact resistance and the second is the effect of graded temperature on these properties.

The polymer / cement ratio used herein is 3 %, this ratio never used before in the previous researches on many types of water soluble powder polymers.

Three concrete batches were prepared, the first is the reference one as a normal concrete (NOR), the second is a polymerized concrete (POL1) where the polymer added as a latex, and the last also as a polymerized concrete (POL2) but the polymer added as a powder.

Each batch contains twelve cubic specimens (100 x 100 x 100) mm for compressive strength test, three cubes for each level of temperature, eight cylindrical specimens (150 x 300) mm for splitting tensile strength test, two cylinders for each level of temperature, and four paneled specimens (450 x 450 x 50) mm for impact resistance test, one panel for each level of temperature.

It can be considered from the results that when the polymer CMC used herein added as a latex will give better strength behavior in polymerized concrete than the one which added as a powder by about 28.86 % in compressive strength, 19 % in splitting tensile strength, very high percent in modulus of elasticity and 16.66 % in impact resistance.

On the other hand, it is found that the temperature level of 200°C will affect the behavior of polymerized concrete and that contrast with the behavior of normal concrete while in temperature levels 400°C and 600°C the effects on polymerized concrete will be more slightly and more clearly on normal concrete.