Interfacial bond strength of coloured SCC repair layers: an experimental and optimisation study
Open Access
- 20 April 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance
- Vol. 8 (3) , 140-149
Abstract
This study investigates experimentally and analytically the interfacial bond strength of coloured SCC repair layers. Ten SCC mixes with 5%, 10% and 15% of blue, green or red pigments were produced to examine their fresh properties. Subsequently, 60 coloured SCC specimens were tested to assess interfacial bond strength using pull-off and push-out tests. The results confirm that pigments reduce the mechanical properties of SCC and its bond strength to concrete substrates, with red pigment reducing (by up to 41%) interfacial bond strength. It is shown that the push-out test is effective to determine the interfacial shear bond strength between the SCC repair layers and substrates. A GNNC-Modified PSO algorithm is proposed to calculate accurately (R2 = 0.95) the interfacial bond strength of coloured SCC repair layers. This study contributes towards developing more effective test methods and more accurate models to calculate interfacial bond strength of the SCC repair layers used in this study.Keywords
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