Abstract
This study adopt laboratory controlled experiment approach, in order to induce the worst scenario of concrete mix and determine the consequent effect on reinforced concrete element; a mix ratio of 1:3:6 was adopted for the experiment. Reinforced concrete elements were cast using both lagoon and ocean water while fresh water was used as a control experiment. These samples were buried at a depth of 1.5m below the ocean and lagoon bed soil characteristics and observed for a period of 150 days. Both the ocean and the lagoon samples increases in compressive strength from 10.65N/mm2 and 10.57N/mm2 on 7th day to 17.05N/mm2 and 18.04N/mm2 on the 21st day respectively as against the 14.20N/mm2 on 7th day to 17.05N/mm2 and 18.04N/mm2 fresh water sample. On 14th day fresh water sample has 17.48N/mm2 as against 12.10N/mm2 and 12.55N/mm2 recorded for both ocean and lagoon water samples. The findings revealed that concrete sample cast and cured with fresh water gained appreciable compressive strength over 150 days period while sample cast and cured with ocean and lagoon water slowly increase in strength but lower when compared with fresh water reinforced concrete element. Therefore the study recommended that a rich mix other than 1:3:6 and 1:3:5 be strictly enforced on construction sites for concrete under saline attack, increase concrete cover be used for protection against corrosion, and that non destructive test be carried out on all formworks under vertical loads like slabs and beams before they are stripped.
Highlights
Background of the StudyIn the vast majority of development that has crept into the building industry, concrete and steel have found their ways so useful and very paramount in the building component. Oyenuga (2004) stated that reinforced concrete is a combination of two dissimilar but complementary materials, namely concrete and steel
This study adopt laboratory controlled experiment approach, in order to induce the worst scenario of concrete mix and determine the consequent effect on reinforced concrete element; a mix ratio of 1:3:6 was adopted for the experiment
The findings revealed that concrete sample cast and cured with fresh water gained appreciable compressive strength over 150 days period while sample cast and cured with ocean and lagoon water slowly increase in strength but lower when compared with fresh water reinforced concrete element
Summary
Background of the StudyIn the vast majority of development that has crept into the building industry, concrete and steel have found their ways so useful and very paramount in the building component. Oyenuga (2004) stated that reinforced concrete is a combination of two dissimilar but complementary materials, namely concrete and steel. Oyenuga (2004) stated that reinforced concrete is a combination of two dissimilar but complementary materials, namely concrete and steel. Concrete has considerable crushing strength, is durable, has good resistance to fire but offers little or no strength in tension but fair in shear. Steel has a very good tensile property, poor resistance to fire (due to rapid loss of strength under high temperature) and very good both in shear and in compression. A combination of these materials results in good tensile and compressive strength, durability and good resistance to fire and shear. Deterioration of concrete is rarely due to one isolated cause, (i.e. no one cause could be described as a factor causing degradation of concrete). In tackling deterioration of concrete, the salinity effect www.ccsenet.org/jsd
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