Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Rheological Properties of SP in Shock Transmission Application
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The rheological properties of silly putty (SP) and its application as a shock transmission unit (STU) were studied in the paper. By using a parallel-plate rheometer, the frequency sweep at different temperature was carried ... -
Use of Infrared Thermography to Detect Thermal Segregation in Asphalt Overlay and Reflective Cracking Potential
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The objectives of this study were to assess whether temperature differentials measured using infrared thermography (IRT) occur in an overlay built on top of discontinuities such as joints and cracks and to study the ... -
Utilization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavements in Indian Low-Volume Roads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Utilization of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in the construction industry is gaining an advantage over conventional materials in terms of sustainable credits. However, the amount of production of RAP and its utilization ... -
Passivation and Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Steel in Simulated Concrete Pore Solution under Tensile and Compressive Stresses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Reinforced concrete structures inevitably experience variable mechanical loads and continuous degradation from aggressive environments such as deicing salts. In this study, several electrochemical measurements were performed ... -
Hydromechanical Characterization of Cement-Bentonite Slurries in the Context of Cutoff Wall Applications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In the one-phase construction of cutoff walls, the slurry plays two contradictory roles: it should be fluid while excavating the trench but behave like a solid of low permeability afterward. For hydraulic containment ... -
Mechanical Characterization of Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate Materials for Modeling Their Geotechnical Behavior
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Based on an extensive testing program, this study presents the mechanical behavior of a lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LWA). This material is currently being used in many civil engineering works and particularly in ... -
Thermal Conductivity of Quartz Sands by Thermo-Time Domain Reflectometry Probe and Model Prediction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The heat transfer process in soil depends on its thermal conductivity property and is affected by soil compositional and environmental factors, such as soil gradation, mineralogy components, compaction moisture content, ... -
Compaction Quality Control of Pavement Layers Using LWD
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The in situ density of compacted layers obtained from sand-cone test is commonly used to assess the quality of compaction of pavement layers. This test is tedious, time consuming, and sometimes not feasible to perform in ... -
Influence of Pore Structure on Mechanical Behavior of Concrete under High Strain Rates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Properties of a porous material such as concrete are strongly dependent on its pore structure features. This study deals with developing an understanding of the material structure-compressive response relationships in ... -
Thermal Performance Modeling of Geopolymer Concrete
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Geopolymers are used for several applications due to their sustainability, low density, low cost, excellent thermal properties, and fire resistance. Geopolymer concrete (GC) may possess superior fire resistance compared ... -
Analysis of Nanoscale Microstructures in Asphalts of Different Aging States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Asphalt surface features revealed in the tapping-mode atomic force microscope (AFM) have been extensively studied. Most of the existing studies focus on the so-called bee-shaped surface feature, believed to be made of ... -
Viscoelastic Characterization of Asphalt Concrete in Diametral Tension-Compression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This work focuses on improving the linear viscoelastic characterization of asphalt concrete materials with a standard indirect tension setup. Three main aspects distinguish this investigation from typical efforts. First, ... -
Residual Properties of TMT Steel Bars after Exposure to Elevated Temperatures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Many reinforced concrete (RC) structures use thermomechanically treated (TMT) bars as reinforcement and are designed to withstand fire loads. Though the properties of mild steel at elevated temperatures have been extensively ... -
Durability against Wetting–Drying Cycles of Water Treatment Sludge–Fly Ash Geopolymer and Water Treatment Sludge–Cement and Silty Clay–Cement Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The viability of using two waste materials, water treatment sludge (WTS) and fly ash (FA), for developing sustainable masonry units has been previously investigated in terms of strength but the important aspect of durability ... -
Flexural Strength Characteristics of Compacted Cement-Polypropylene Fiber Sand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)An improvement of flexural strength of cement stabilized sand using polypropylene fibers designated as compacted cement-polypropylene fiber-sand (CCFS) is investigated in this research. The studied material performance of ... -
Recycling of Polyethylene into Strong and Tough Earth-Based Composite Building Materials
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Polyethylene (PE) waste often piles up in the environment for up to 30 to 50 years, without complete degradation. This paper describes how PE waste can be used as a reinforcement in laterite bricks for sustainable building ... -
Stabilization of Quarry Fines Using a Polymeric Additive and Portland Cement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The effect of treating limestone quarry fines (LQFs) with a commercially available liquid polymeric soil stabilizer, and a combination of the polymeric soil stabilizer and a small quantity (4%) of portland cement was ... -
Impact of Antistrip Additives on the Long-Term Aging Rheological Properties of Asphalt Binders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Hydrated lime and liquid antistrip agents have long been used as an asphalt additive to improve resistance to moisture damage. Previous studies have shown that the addition of hydrated lime to asphalt binders reduced the ... -
Effects of Using Sasobit and SBS on the Engineering Properties of Bitumen and Stone Mastic Asphalt
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Using hard and polymer-modified binders in stone mastic asphalt mixtures reduces workability considerably. In this study, Sasobit (Sasolwax, Worthdamm, Hamburg) is used in bitumen to increase the workability and efficiency ... -
Tensile Strain Hardening Behavior of PVA Fiber-Reinforced Engineered Geopolymer Composite
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)This paper is aimed to improve the mechanical properties (namely compressive and tensile strengths) of a recently developed fly ash-based engineered geopolymer composite (EGC) with relatively low-concentration activator ...