Shoichi Inoue

Properties of Concrete with Decomposed Granite as Fine Aggregate

Three kinds of decomposed granites are selected based on the content of materials finer than 75μm sieve and ignition loss among decomposed granites produced in Tottori prefecture. The selected decomposed granites are sifted with 10mm sieve and used as fine aggregate for concrete. In this paper, the properties of fresh and hardened concrete with decomposed granite and the application of decomposed granite to fine aggregate for concrete are investigated.The test results show that the dosage of a retarder type of air-entraining high-range water reducing agent (HWRA) required to attain the same slump value increases as the material finer than 0.15mm sieve included in the decomposed granite increases and its water retaining factor becomes larger. An increase in dosage of HWRA leads to an extension in setting time. Consequently, the setting time of the concrete with decomposed granite becomes long compared to that of concrete with normal sand. However, the fundamental properties of concrete with decomposed granite such as slump and air loss with time, bleeding, compressive strength, drying shrinkage and freeze-thaw resistance are almost the same as those of concrete with normal sand.

Fatigue of Non-Shrinkage Mortar

Non-shrinkage mortar is being used effectively to fix shoes of bridges and base plates of machines. With the recent sharp rise in traffic volume, occasions on which non-shrinkage mortars are subjected to repeated loading are increasing more and more.In this study, fatigue tests of six kinds of non-shrinkage mortar and plain mortar in compression were performed. Since the values of fatigue life of mortar and concrete are known to scatter widely, the fatigue test results were evaluated statistically.The results suggest that the fatigue life of non-shrinkage mortar at each stress level follows a Weibull distribution or logarithmic normal distribution. No fatigue limit seems to exist for non-shrinkage mortar. However, the fatigue strengths of plain and non-shrinkage mortar, except B mortar, at 2 millions cycles can be estimated at about 60 percent of ultimate static strengths.