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Determination of Concrete Strength for Concrete Pavement Opening Decision-Making

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Improving early-age concrete strength measurement is an important step toward opening new pavements to traffic quickly without risking long-term performance due to early age damage. The maturity method is well established as an appropriate estimation of strength; however, it contains certain unavoidable limitations. Non-destructive ultrasonic testing using shear wave velocity can be used as a complementary testing. An in-situ comparison of these strength estimation methods was performed on a 200-mm thick concrete pavement for two weeks after placement. Both methods predicted reasonable concrete strength gain trends for in-situ pavement. The linear array ultrasonic method was found to have major advantages regarding portability, strength-gain variation and testing speed.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Impactful Resilient Infrastructure Science and Engineering (IRISE) and the University of Pittsburgh Anthony Gill Chair. The authors would like to thank Golden Triangle Construction for allowing the testing in their facilities; especially to Ryan Pendeville for helping with the laboratory testing and Horan Li and Zhe Wan from the University of Pittsburgh for providing assistance. The authors would also like to thank Charles Donnelly, Nathaniel Buettner and Naser Sharifi from the University of Pittsburgh for casting and testing the concrete specimens, installing the thermocouples and programming and setting up the data acquisition system. Special thanks to the FHWA Concrete Mobile Laboratory for providing the ultrasound tomography device, MIRA, and maturity meter.

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This work was supported by the by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Impactful Resilient Infrastructure Science and Engineering (IRISE) and the University of Pittsburgh Anthony Gill Chair.

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    Lucio Salles de Salles, Katelyn Kosar, Julie Vandenbossche & Lev Khazanovich

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The authors confirm contribution to the paper as follows: study conception and design: LSS, JV, LK; data collection: KK, LSS, JV; analysis and interpretation of results: KK, LSS, LK; draft manuscript preparation: KK, LSS, JV, LK. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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de Salles, L.S., Kosar, K., Vandenbossche, J. et al. Determination of Concrete Strength for Concrete Pavement Opening Decision-Making. Int. J. Pavement Res. Technol. 16, 1009–1020 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42947-022-00176-9

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