Field Validation of Concrete Transport Property Measurement Methods

Field Measurement of Vertical Strain in Asphalt Concrete

Recently developed Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) determines the probable total rutting by summing up the deformations of all layers of the trial pavement. If all distresses outcomes including rutting are within the specification the trial section is designed for construction. Therefore, vertical deformation (or strain) needs to be measured to validate the MEPDG for local c...

Transport Property Estimation of Non-Uniform Porous Media

In this work a glass micromodel which its grains and pores are non-uniform in size, shape and distribution is considered as porous medium. A two-dimensional random network model of micromodel with non-uniform pores has been constructed. The non-uniformity of porous model is achieved by assigning parametric distribution functions to pores throat and pores length, which was measured using ima...

Transport Properties of Concrete

In this paper the main transport processes that take place in concrete are described. For each process a brief introduction to the physical mechanism is developed by giving examples of how they can contribute to the deterioration of concrete structures by, for example, enabling salt to reach the reinforcement. An example of the practical use of the theory is taken from the design of a waste con...

Measurement Methods in the field of benchmarking

In benchmarking we often come across with parameters being difficult to measure while executing comparisons or analyzing performance, yet they have to be compared and measured so as to be able to choose the best practices. The situation is similar in the case of complex, multidimensional evaluation as well, when the relative importance and order of different dimensions, parameters to be evaluat...

Measurement methods for experimental impurity transport studies