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Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures
This article presents the test results for the physical and mechanical properties and fracture toughness of polymer-modified hydraulically-bound mixtures (HBM) produced with Portland cement for road base layers. The modifier used was a redispersible polymer powder (RPP) based on a vinyl ethylene ace...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7579377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32987755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13194253 |
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author | Buczyński, Przemysław Iwański, Marek Mazurek, Grzegorz Krasowski, Jakub Krasowski, Maciej |
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description | This article presents the test results for the physical and mechanical properties and fracture toughness of polymer-modified hydraulically-bound mixtures (HBM) produced with Portland cement for road base layers. The modifier used was a redispersible polymer powder (RPP) based on a vinyl ethylene acetate (EVA) copolymer obtained by spray drying. A three-level full factorial design with two factors was applied to determine the contents of Portland cement and polymer powder in the cement-bound mixture (CBM). Both Portland cement and polymer powder were added at three levels: 0%, 2%, and 4%. The assessment included basic physical properties (water absorption, density, and bulk density) and mechanical properties (stiffness modulus, axial compressive strength, and indirect tensile strength) of the CBM. Particular attention was paid to the assessment of fracture toughness in the semi-circular bending test. The results of the research show that polymer powder positively influenced the mechanical properties of CBM by improving its cohesion while maintaining its stiffness. Another benefit coming from the use of polymer powder was the CBM’s increased resistance to cracking, which is the desired characteristic from the perspective of pavement durability. |
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spelling | pubmed-75793772020-10-29 Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures Buczyński, Przemysław Iwański, Marek Mazurek, Grzegorz Krasowski, Jakub Krasowski, Maciej Materials (Basel) Article This article presents the test results for the physical and mechanical properties and fracture toughness of polymer-modified hydraulically-bound mixtures (HBM) produced with Portland cement for road base layers. The modifier used was a redispersible polymer powder (RPP) based on a vinyl ethylene acetate (EVA) copolymer obtained by spray drying. A three-level full factorial design with two factors was applied to determine the contents of Portland cement and polymer powder in the cement-bound mixture (CBM). Both Portland cement and polymer powder were added at three levels: 0%, 2%, and 4%. The assessment included basic physical properties (water absorption, density, and bulk density) and mechanical properties (stiffness modulus, axial compressive strength, and indirect tensile strength) of the CBM. Particular attention was paid to the assessment of fracture toughness in the semi-circular bending test. The results of the research show that polymer powder positively influenced the mechanical properties of CBM by improving its cohesion while maintaining its stiffness. Another benefit coming from the use of polymer powder was the CBM’s increased resistance to cracking, which is the desired characteristic from the perspective of pavement durability. MDPI 2020-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7579377/ /pubmed/32987755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13194253 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Buczyński, Przemysław Iwański, Marek Mazurek, Grzegorz Krasowski, Jakub Krasowski, Maciej Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures |
title | Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures |
title_full | Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures |
title_fullStr | Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures |
title_short | Effects of Portland Cement and Polymer Powder on the Properties of Cement-Bound Road Base Mixtures |
title_sort | effects of portland cement and polymer powder on the properties of cement-bound road base mixtures |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7579377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32987755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13194253 |
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