Fly-ash concrete used in massive concrete structure has superior advantages to reduce hydration heat. On the other hand, the fly-ash concrete has negative property of low strength development at early age because pozzolanic reaction of fly-ash activates at mature age, such as after 28 days. To investigate these characteristics of fly-ash used in concrete, the present study discusses thermal cracking possibility of fly-ash concrete by using FE analysis software. The present study employs prediction formulae proposed by Zhang and Japanese design code in the simulations. The objects in this study are normal strength concrete mixed of fly-ash up to 50% of replacement ratio to cement. The comparative investigations show that temperature effect is more significant than strength development at early age. Based on the analytical study, high volume fly-ash concretes of 30-50% of the replacement ratio can be concluded as effective and useful materials to reduce the cracking possibility in massive concrete structures. Keywords-Fly-ash concrete; Early Age, Prediction Formulae for Strength; Thermal Stress Analysis
To propose a prediction formula of compressive strength of concretes containing fly ash (FA concrete), over 1600 strength data are collected from previous studies and discussed in this study. In particular, the study focuses on developing strengths of FA concrete. The study deals with test data of concrete with wide range of FA replacement, namely 0-50% by mass of cement. Compressive strength at age of 7 days has strongly relation to the cement-water ratio, so the strength can be predicted by using only water and cement contents. In addition, early age strengths within 7 days can be estimated by using the Goral curve based on strength ratio. Strength after the age of 7 days can be predicted by using replacement ratio of fly ash because the strength ratios are proportional to the replacement ratio. Based on the findings, a simplified formula for predicting compressive strength at various ages is proposed in the paper.
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