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RHO & The Perfect Aggregate?

01/26/2011 4:47 PM

I am involved with a buried 115KV power line project. (Duct bank encasement) Job specifications call for concrete placed over the power cables to have RHO results below 50 degrees C-cm/W at 4 % moisture & below 100 degrees C-cm/W at 0% moisture.

Has anyone out there been able to achieve these results?

If so, what is the petrographic/geologic parameters of the aggregate used?

Thanks for your help!

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Re: RHO & The Perfect Aggregate?

01/27/2011 11:37 AM

Hmm, this kind of makes me wonder what the RHO for portland cement is, since it is the only component in concrete that has continuity.

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Re: RHO & The Perfect Aggregate?

01/28/2011 9:54 AM

True-but regrettably we must also adhere to another spec that calls for no less than 4000 psi break strengths @ 28 days and be ASR non-reactive!

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Re: RHO & The Perfect Aggregate?

01/28/2011 12:43 PM

Hmm, these don't really seem directly relevent to the question. Consider a bunch of non-conductive plastic spheres placed in salt water. Is the RHO of the sphere going to have much effect on the overall RHO of the system? At some point small changes in the RHO of the aggregate will have no apparent effect if the concrete is substantially greater. In this case, what may have a effect could be the ratio of aggregate to cementitious materials though, by increasing the maximum size of aggregate and gradation in the mix. Something to consider. You can achieve 4000 PSI mixes and ASR non-reactive with a variety of different mixes comprised of different aggregate sizes and gradatations

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