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Bond between steel reinforcement bars and Electric Arc Furnace slag concrete

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This paper deals with the bond between steel reinforcement and recycled aggregate concrete, including Electric arc furnace (EAF) slag as full replacement of natural coarse aggregates. Pull-out tests were carried out according to RILEM standard on specimens made with six concrete mixtures, characterized by different w/c ratios and types of aggregates. Plain and ribbed steel reinforcement bars were used to observe the influence of steel roughness. Experimental bond-slip relationships were analyzed, and results show similar bond mechanisms between the reference and EAF concrete specimens. Significant bond strength enhancement is observed in concretes with low w/c ratio, when EAF slag is used as recycled coarse aggregate. Experimental results in terms of bond strength were also compared to analytical predictions, obtained with empirical formulations.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Spanish Ministry MINECO and FEDER Funds for financial support through Project BlueCons: BIA2014-55576-C2-2-R. Also the authors would to express their gratitude to the Vice-Rectorate of Investigation of the University of the Basque Country for grant PIF 2013, the grant for mobility of researchers 2015 and, likewise, to the Basque Government for financial support to Research Group IT781-13. The authors would like also to thank Zerocento S.r.l. for providing the EAF slag, and to Francesco Galdeman for his help during the experimental campaign.

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  1. Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Via F. Marzolo 9, 35131, Padua, Italy

    Flora Faleschini, Mariano Angelo Zanini & Carlo Pellegrino

  2. Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Science Department, University of Basque Country, Alameda de Urquijo s/n, 48013, Bilbao, Spain

    Amaia Santamaria & José-Tomás San José

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Faleschini, F., Santamaria, A., Zanini, M.A. et al. Bond between steel reinforcement bars and Electric Arc Furnace slag concrete. Mater Struct 50, 170 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-017-1038-2

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