رسائل ماجيستير
English
2022
Evaluation of Performance of Metakaolin and Nano Materials Based Self-Compacting Concrete
حيدر محمد عويد, رويده كريم خومان جبار
كلية الهندسة-جامعة بابل · العراق
With the current focus on sustainable development in the civil engineering field, it is necessary to develop construction and building materials with reasonable costs and low environmental impacts in order to reduce CO2 emissions from the cement industry as a whole. This thesis studies the effect of using metakaolin (MK), also called Calcined kaolin clay (CKC), and nanomaterials (Nano calcium carbonate (NC), and Nano alumina (NA)) as partial replacements for Portland limestone cement (PLC) on the sustainability of self-compacting concrete (SCC) and improves its structural properties. This thesis developed three blend systems: binary, ternary, and quaternary. The fresh properties of SCCs were measured by slump flow (D), and T500, V-funnel, L-box, and segregation resistance tests to evaluate the filling ability, passing ability, and segregation resistance of concrete mixes. The bulk density, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) tests were carried out to assess the performance of SCC mixtures in hardened states at various ages. Besides, the durability performance of SCCs was investigated in terms of water absorption, porosity, and sorptivity. The results revealed that when utilizing MK, NC, and NA in binary, ternary, and quaternary blends, they reduced the fresh properties, and the slump flows, flow times, and segregation tests are good enough for SCCs development. In addition, the L-Box height ratio values ranged from 0.791 to 0.982 without any tendency to blockage. Thus, all the SCC mixtures fulfilled the properties in a fresh state. There is a significant improvement in the test results of the hardened properties and durability performance of the SCC in quaternary blend system, where the hybrid blends of 3% NC and 2% NA particles with MK in quaternary blends are more beneficial than the single use of nanoparticles with MK. At 90