The effect of glass powder on strength and microstructure of ultra high performance cement-based materials was investigated in this paper, which aimed to provide an additional option for glass recycling and potentially reduce the high costs of this kind of materials. Compressive strength of pastes and mortars with different glass powder content were tested and their microstructure properties were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Test result showed that the compressive strength rose initially with the increase of the amount of glass powder, and reached to the peak at 20% replacement ratio, then decreased a little. The glass powder in ultra high performance cement-based materials had exhibited pozzolanic reaction and filling effect, contributing substantially to strength increase. In addition, no ASR micro-cracking ring was found around the large glass powder particle due to the enough fineness of glass powder and the existing of silica fume.
Based on the method of strength reduction, numerical simulations were carried out to analyze the stability of the cutting slope. The direct shear tests of slope soil samples with different water content were carried out, and the safety factors of stability of the cutting slope were investigated with different cohesions and internal friction angles. At last, displacements and safety factors of stability of the slope with drains and without drains were calculated, and the observations of displacement of the cutting slope in field were also carried out. The results show that: The water content of the slope soil has great effects on the strength parameters, the cohesion and the internal friction angle decrease with the increase of the water content, and the effect is more significant on the cohesion than that on the internal friction angle. The safety factor of stability for the slope increases with the increase of the strength parameters, hence it increases with the decrease of the water content. The section of the slope without drains in the field is unstable, while the section with drains maintains stable.
In this testing research, a series of High Performance Recycled Aggregate Concrete (HPRAC) with recycled aggregate were prepared and their mechanical behaviors were tested, especially uniaxial compressive stress-strain behavior. The influence of the recycled aggregate replacement on mechanical behaviors of HPRAC was studied by changing replacement ratio of recycled aggregate. Testing results show that the strength of HPRAC decrease a little with the increase of the content of recycled aggregate; the uniaxial compressive stress-strain curve of HPRAC is similar to that of ordinary concrete, and the ductibility of HPRAC improve with the increase of the content of recycled aggregate; the fitted regression curves (especially numerical model) approach to measured curves and can be used in constitutive relations analysis for concrete structure.
The loess landslide in BaDong city, HuBei province China suffers great losses, which is an extremely typical landslide disaster. Variation in water level in the Yangtse River and rainfall has enormous influence on the loess landslide disaster. Some tests on loess have been done, which mainly include water content influence on shear strength of the loess, the relation between water content and dry density etc. The results have shown that When the water content average increasing with 3%, the cohesive strength reduces with 57%,49%,54% respectively and the internal friction angle average reduces 43%. The bigger the water content, the bigger the shear displacement at the same imposed load. When water content average increases with 3%, the corresponding maximum shear stress reduces with 50%, which may be in favor of loess landslide disaster prevention.
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