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Correlations between depth of water penetration, chloride permeability, and coefficient of chloride diffusion in plain, silica fume, and fly ash cement concretes

  • Shamsad Ahmad*
  • , Walid A. Al-Kutti
  • , Omar S.Baghabra Al-Amoudi
  • , Mohammed Maslehuddin
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

An experimental study was conducted to evaluate correlations between the depth of water penetration, chloride permeability, and coefficient of chloride diffusion in plain, silica fume, and fly ash cement concretes. A total of 27 concrete mixtures were prepared by varying the water to cementitious materials ratio and cementitious materials content and using Type I, fly ash (20 %), and silica fume (7.5 %) cements. The test results were statistically analyzed to develop correlations between the depth of water penetration, chloride permeability, and coefficient of chloride diffusion. A good correlation was noted between the depth of water penetration and chloride diffusion, and chloride permeability and coefficient of chloride diffusion (R 2>0.80).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)136-139
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Testing and Evaluation
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2008

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the support received for this research under grant ARI-022 from the Research Institute and the Civil Engineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Keywords

  • Correlation between properties
  • Durability characteristics
  • Plain and blended cement concretes
  • Statistical analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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