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Air permeability of cover concrete quality of precast box culverts affected by casting direction

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CIGOS 2019, Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure

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Casting direction is an external factor that can influence the properties, including air permeability of concrete structures. In the current study, the effect of this factor on the air permeability of precast box culverts was investigated. The Torrent air permeability test was used to measure coefficient of air permeability kT for two box culvert specimens produced using ordinary Portland cement, water-to-binder ratio of 0.485, different casting directions (vertical and horizontal) at the age of 3 months. The obtained results show the different cover concrete qualities between the surfaces of the horizontal casting specimen, whereas the shortcomings during casting process were detected of the vertical casting specimen.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the All Japan Box-Culvert Association. The authors are grateful to Mr. Hideaki Karasawa, Mr. Yuji Tadokoro and other members of the association for assisting with the specimen preparation in experiments.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-527, Japan

    May Huu Nguyen, Kenichiro Nakarai & Saeko Kajita

  2. Department of Bridge and Tunnel, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Transport Technology, 54 Trieu Khuc, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, 100000, Vietnam

    May Huu Nguyen

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  1. University of Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France

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  2. University of Transport Technology, Thanh Xuan, Ha Noi, Vietnam

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  3. Département Génie Civil, ENS Paris-Saclay, CACHAN CEDEX, France

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Nguyen, M.H., Nakarai, K., Kajita, S. (2020). Air permeability of cover concrete quality of precast box culverts affected by casting direction. In: Ha-Minh, C., Dao, D., Benboudjema, F., Derrible, S., Huynh, D., Tang, A. (eds) CIGOS 2019, Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 54. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0802-8_78

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