Method for batch casting high-fluidity high-performance concrete and low-fluidity high-performance concrete

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11168449-B2
Application number	US-201716649978-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2017
Priority date	Nov 6, 2017
Publication date	Nov 9, 2021
Grant date	Nov 9, 2021

Abstract

A method of batch-casting high-fluidity high performance concrete and low-fluidity high performance concrete, wherein the method is capable of batch-casting high-fluidity high performance concrete for forming a girder portion of a bridge and low-fluidity high performance concrete for forming a deck plate portion of the bridge by using a concrete casting apparatus. Accordingly, the construction cost can be reduced and the construction period can be shortened. In addition, because a cold joint does not occur, durability can be improved, and thus the life of the bridge can be increased.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of batch-casting high-fluidity high performance concrete and low-fluidity high performance concrete, the method comprising:
a) installing a formwork and reinforcing bars for a first concrete member ( 110 ) on which high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) is to be cast;
b) installing a formwork and reinforcing bars for a second concrete member ( 130 ) on which low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 ) is to be cast along a slope gradient;
c) mixing binder, mixing water, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate, and superplasticizer into the low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 );
d) before casting of the concrete, forming the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) with adjusted fluidity by using a thickener while a mixing volume of the superplasticizer is maintained the same;
e) adding an additional chemical agent to the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ); and
f) batch-casting the low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 ) and the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) on respective formworks,
wherein the thickener is used in an amount in a range of 0.005 to 5.0 wt % with respect to cement weight, the additional chemical agent is used in an amount in a range of 0.001 to 0.05 wt % with respect to the cement weight, and the low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 ) is cast so that a fluidity maintaining time and a hydration reaction time are the same as those of the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ).

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) is used with a mix proportion adjusted so that slump flow is in a range of 600 to 850 mm, and the low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 ) is used with a mix proportion adjusted so that slump flow is in a range of 300 to 500 mm; and
even when fluidities of the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) and the low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 ) are different, hydration reaction times thereof are adjusted to be the same so that shrinkage behaviors thereof during a hydration reaction become the same.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the thickener in Step d) is a cellulose derivative thickener, a starch derivative thickener, or a sodium alginate thickener, and, in a case in which the thickener is added to a mix of the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ), the fluidity is low while a concrete casting apparatus ( 150 ) is standstill or not vibrating and becomes higher in a state in which the concrete casting apparatus ( 150 ) applies pressure or vibrates so that concrete pumping performance or concrete consolidation performance is improved.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the additional chemical agent in Step e) is an air entraining agent (AE agent) or an alginate foaming agent and prevents concrete from being attached to a wall surface inside a pumping pipe and improves pumping performance during pumping of the concrete so that an injection pressure is reduced or an injection speed is increased.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein vibrating consolidation is performed on the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) so that the fluidity thereof is improved and efficiency of the consolidation work is improved.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first concrete member ( 110 ) is a girder portion of a bridge, and the second concrete member is a deck plate of the bridge that has the slope gradient.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein a bridge is cast at once by casting the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) up to a portion right below the deck plate of the bridge and casting the low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 ) on the deck plate portion of the bridge, which has the slope gradient, in order to apply high performance concrete to a bridge construction site.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the thickener in Step d) and the additional chemical agent in Step e) are mixed together with other constituent materials by a mixer when manufacturing high performance concrete, or the low-fluidity high performance concrete ( 140 ) is manufactured and transported to a concrete mixer truck, which is a concrete casting apparatus ( 150 ), and then the thickener and the additional chemical agent are injected into the concrete mixer truck right before casting and mixed for 2 to 3 minutes.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the high-fluidity high performance concrete ( 120 ) has a characteristic in that it does not flow while the concrete casting apparatus ( 150 ) is standstill or not vibrating and flows when the concrete casting apparatus ( 150 ) applies a predetermined pressure or vibration.

Assignees

• Korea Inst Civil Eng & Building Tech

Inventors

• Koh Kyung Taek
• Ryu Gum Sung
• An Gi Hong
• Kim Byung Suk
• Park Sung Yong

Classifications

• E01D21/00 Primary

  Methods or apparatus specially adapted for erecting or assembling bridges · CPC title

• B28C7/0404

  Proportioning · CPC title

• B28B1/008 Primary

  made from two or more materials having different characteristics or properties (casting for producing layered articles B28B1/16; feeding several succesive layers, optionally of different materials B28B13/022; coating B28B11/04; applying material to surfaces to form a permanent layer thereon B28B19/00) · CPC title

• E01D19/125

  Grating or flooring for bridges (waterproofing thereof E01D19/083; floors in general E04B5/00) · CPC title

• C04B2103/304

  Air-entrainers · CPC title