Fatigue Property Evaluation of Sustainable Porous Concrete Modified by Recycled Ground Tire Rubber/Silica Fume under Freeze-Thaw Cycles

Guobao Luo, Jian Zhang, Zhenhua Zhao and Mingzhi Sun ()
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Guobao Luo: Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China
Jian Zhang: Jinan City Construction Group Co., Ltd., Jinan 250031, China
Zhenhua Zhao: Jinan Huanghe Road and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., Jinan 250031, China
Mingzhi Sun: Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-15

Abstract: As an environmentally friendly pavement material, porous concrete in seasonal frozen region is often subjected to repeated loads and freeze-thaw cycles. Therefore, the fatigue property of porous concrete under freeze-thaw is extremely important. However, few researches have been reported on the topic. Based on this background, this paper investigates the flexural fatigue property of ground tire rubber/silica fume composite modified porous concrete (GTR/SF-PC) with experimental and mathematical statistical methods. The flexural fatigue life of GTR/SF-PC under different freeze-thaw cycles (0, 15, 30) was tested with three-point flexural fatigue experiment at four stress levels (0.70, 0.75, 0.80, 0.85). Kaplan Meier survival analysis and Weibull model were adopted to analyze and characterize the flexural fatigue life. The fatigue life equations of GTR/SF-PC under different freeze-thaw cycles were established. The results indicate that, duo to the addition of ground tire rubber and silica fume, the static flexural strength of GTR/SF-PC is not significantly affected by freeze-thaw cycles. The flexural fatigue property of GTR/SF-PC is gradually deteriorated under the action of freeze-thaw cycles. Compared with 0 freeze-thaw cycles, the average flexural fatigue life of GTR/SF-PC decreases about 15% and the fatigue failure rate increases about 50% after 30 freeze-thaw cycles, respectively. The fatigue equations with different reliabilities of GTR/SF-PC show that the reliability is inversely proportional to fatigue life, therefore, the appropriate fatigue equation considering freeze-thaw effect is necessary for fatigue design of porous concrete.

Keywords: fatigue; porous concrete; freeze-thaw; Weibull distribution; survival analysis; fatigue reliability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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