Test and Mesoscopic Analysis of Chloride Ion Diffusion of High-Performance-Concrete with Fly Ash and Silica Fume

Abstract

High performance concrete (HPC) is a kind of concrete with mineral admixtures, which has better resistance ability to chloride ions diffusion than ordinary concrete. In the present study, the authors carried out a chloride ion diffusion experiment for the HPC with fly ash and silica fume. The influence of the water–binder ratio (W/B), binary (Portland cement–Fly ash (PC-FS) and Portland cement–Silica fume (PC-SF) and ternary (Portland cement–Fly ash–Silica fume (PC-FA-SF)) combinations on the concrete compressive strength and chloride ion diffusion was investigated. It was found that the compressive strength of normal concrete and HPC increase with the decrease in the W/B, the ratio of W/B deceasing value to strength increasing value for normal concrete is 0.74, and for the HPC is 0.20, so the influence of the W/B on the concrete strength for normal concrete was obviously more than the HPC. The influence of the contents of the SF or FA on developing the concrete strength was limited. The concrete compressive strength of ternary combination specimens decreases with the increase in FA or SF when the content of the other mineral admixture SF or FA remained unchanged. The ternary combination was more efficient in prohibiting chlorides ingress insider the specimens than the binary combination. The mesoscopic simulation and the tested value of the chloride ion under the same depth was close, the average ratio of simulation value to tested value was 0.91. The aggregate shape and distribution also had a negligible influence on chloride diffusivity in the HPC, but the chloride ion concentration increased with the increase in aggregate size.