Self-Healing and Mechanical Behaviour of Fibre-Reinforced Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Incorporating Superabsorbent Polymer Under Repeated and Sustained Loadings
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2024
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Alameri, M.
Mohamed Ali, M.S.
Elchalakani, M.
Sheikh, A.
Fan, R.
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Fibers, 2024; 12(11):95-1-95-22
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Mohammad Alameri, M.S. Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Elchalakani, Abdul Sheikh, and Rong Fan
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This study investigated the mechanical responses and self-healing capability of incorporating superabsorbent polymer (SAP) particles in Fibre-Reinforced Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) mixes under repetitive flexural and sustained tensile loadings. UHPC with SAP addition of 0.3% and 0.4% of the binder ratio were studied along with a control UHPC mix. The methodology included investigating the mechanical properties of these mixes under ambient, water, and 100% of relative humidity (RH) curing conditions. In addition, the mechanical performance of ambient-, water-, and 100% RH-cured prismatic specimens (100 mm × 100 mm × 500 mm) under repeated load was studied under the same curing conditions. Prismatic specimens (75 mm × 75 mm × 500 mm) were kept under cure conditions of wet and dry cycles with applied tensile load for 28 days for the sustained tensile load. The results showed that incorporating SAP into UHPC enhances the elastic modulus, flexural strength, and tensile strength. Also, mixes with SAP have exhibited compressive strength above 120 MPa after 90 days. Furthermore, the load recovery of the prisms under repetitive flexural load and prisms under sustained tensile loading demonstrated the self-healing efficiency of SAP incorporated into the UHPC mixes higher than the control mix specimens.
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© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).