Abstract
One of the most significant challenges facing transport networks in cold regions is snow accumulation on road surfaces. This can lead to traffic congestion and safety issues. While electrically conductive concrete (ECON) heated pavement systems (HPS) offer several advantages, including stability, and low environmental impact, they also present certain limitations, such as low snow-melting efficiency and high snow-melting energy consumption. In this study, a SiO2 aerogel mortar thermal-insulation layer and a self-compacting concrete structural layer were set underneath the reduced graphene oxide (RGO) composite conductive concrete, and the straight pervious channels were prefabricated, to reduce the snow-melting efficiency and energy consumption through the preparation of multilayer composite conductive-pervious concrete integrated specimen. The initial objective was to investigate the influence of SiO2 aerogel substitution rate on the mechanical properties and thermal conductivity of thermal-insulation mortar. Secondly, the impact of the thickness of the conductive layer and thermal-insulation layer on the mechanical properties of the integrated specimen was analyzed. Finally, the impact of SiO2 aerogel thermal-insulation mortar and straight pervious channels on the integrated specimen's snow-melting performance was evaluated through a snow-melting test, which assessed the efficiency and energy consumption of the snow-melting process. The results indicate that when the SiO2 aerogel substitution rate was 40 %, the thermal-insulation mortar exhibited favorable mechanical and thermal-insulation properties. The 5 cm conductive layer and the 1 cm thermal-insulation layer achieved good mechanical properties of the integrated specimen. In comparison to single-layer composite conductive concrete, the snow-melting time and energy consumption of multilayer composite conductive-pervious concrete integrated specimen were reduced by 23.05 % and 21.30 %, respectively. The straight pervious channels permit the immediate discharge of water produced by snow melting, thereby reducing the heat transfer from the snow-melting board to the water film. The setting of SiO2 aerogel thermal-insulation mortar enables the retention of heat for the heating of the snow-melting board and snow melting, which improves the snow-melting performance.
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