Abstract:
To study the effects of capillary crystalline cement additive (CCCA) on the mechanical, chloride ion penetration resistance and self-healing properties of polyethylene (PE) fiber reinforced engineered cementitious composites (ECC), PE/ECC was used as the control group and mixed with different mass fractions of CCCA (2wt%, 4wt%, 6wt%, 8wt%, 10wt%), and the mechanical, anti-chloride ion permeability and self-healing properties of PE/ECC were investigated by compressive, flexural, tensile, electric flux method and pre-loaded strain damage method, and the self-healing products were analyzed by XRD and SEM-EDS for their physical composition, microscopic morphology and elemental composition. The results show that: The mechanical and anti-chloride ion permeability of PE/ECC increase and then decrease with the increase of CCCA doping, and when the doping of CCCA is 4wt%, the mechanical and anti-chloride ion permeability of PE/ECC is most obviously improved by CCCA, and the compressive strength, flexural strength and ultimate tensile stress increase by 55.5%, 10.8%, and 79.4%, respectively. The ultimate tensile strain does not change much, and the electrical flux decreases by 38.6%. The self-healing test shows that the recovery rate of tensile strength and strain energy of PE/ECC is significantly improved after doping with CCCA, and the self-healing performance is enhanced. When the pre-damage strain is 0.5%, the tensile strength and strain energy of PE/ECC specimens doped with CCCA are higher than those of the original matrix after 84 days of maintenance, which are 10.41% and 2.83% higher than those of the original matrix, respectively. The tensile strength and strain energy of PE/ECC specimens without CCCA are lower than those of undamaged specimens under three strain damages. The XRD and SEM-EDS results show that the CaCO
3, calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H), and ettringite (AFt) intensity diffraction peaks increase in the hydration products of PE/ECC with CCCA, and the self-healing products are mainly C-S-H crystals, and the distribution is denser in the PE/ECC with CCCA.