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Optimal Paste Volume Method: An Alternative Mixture Proportioning Method for Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement

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Roller Compacted Concrete Pavements (RCCP) are mostly designed by soil-compaction technique. However, the shortcomings associated with the soil-compaction method warrant a scientific way of designing RCCP mixtures based on the paste volume requirements considering the compactness and morphology of aggregates. To evaluate the optimum binder ratio (ratio of paste volume to the volume of void) for RCCP, several mixes were prepared following the particle packing approach by varying the binder ratio at a constant water-cement ratio (0.42). Fresh density, consistency, compactability, hardened density, and compressive strength were considered for binder ratio optimization. It was observed that there exists a linear relationship between the binder ratio and hardened properties up to a ratio of one; post this, a significant decrease in the considered hardened properties was observed. The results indicate that the RCCP mixtures could achieve higher strength and good workability with a binder ratio of 1.

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The first author would like to express his gratitude to the Ministry of Education, the Government of India, for providing the PMRF scholarship. Also, the authors wish to thank and acknowledge the funding received from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, under project no: SB20210809CEMHRD008100 (Technologies for Low carbon & Lean Construction (TLC).

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  2. Transportation Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, Assam, 788010, India

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Selvam, M., Singh, S. Optimal Paste Volume Method: An Alternative Mixture Proportioning Method for Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement. Transp. in Dev. Econ. 10, 8 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40890-023-00191-w

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