Bonding Performance and Microstructural Mechanism between Rapid Repair Materials and Old Concrete Pavement

Abstract

In China, airports predominantly utilize airport cement concrete pavement, which inevitably undergoes deterioration in service. To uphold pavement durability and functionality, and ensure aircraft operational safety, prompt repairs of affected areas are imperative. Therefore, ordinary Portland cement mortars were used as the control group to compare and analyze the bonding performances of two common airport pavement repair materials: modified Portland cement mortars and phosphate cement mortars. Meanwhile, through microscopic experiments, the microscopic characteristics of the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) were studied, and the interface bonding mechanism was analyzed. The research results indicate that the interface bonding strength between phosphate cement mortar and old concrete pavement is the highest. This was because the elements in phosphate cement penetrated the old concrete pavement through hydration reactions, forming van der Waals forces and chemical bonding forces. In addition, the research results indicated that the presence of old concrete pavement made the three repair materials produce similar sidewall effects with the old concrete pavement, leading to a low hydration degree of the repair materials. However, the chemical bonding and penetrating structure of phosphate cement compensated for the weakening effect of the ITZ in the repair materials.