Fire performance of highly flowable reactive powder concrete

Chin Tsung Liu, Jong Shin Huang

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Abstract

The fire performance of highly flowable reactive powder concrete (RPC) is of importance and necessary to be investigated prior to the application to building construction. By conducting a series of fire resistance tests, it is found that the residual compressive strength of RPC decreases with increasing fire duration. As compared to high performance concrete (HPC) and ordinary concrete (OC), the studied RPC not only has a higher fire endurance temperature but also possesses a larger residual compressive strength after fire. In addition, the experimental results of thermogravimetric analyses on RPC, HPC and OC specimens suffered from the same fire temperature and duration indicate that the total weight loss of RPC is lower than others. Besides excellent workability and high compressive strength, the studied RPC could provide better fire resistance than HPC and OC, and thus is applicable to building materials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2072-2079
Number of pages8
JournalConstruction and Building Materials
Volume23
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009 May

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Building and Construction
  • Materials Science(all)

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