Abstract:
The copper-plated steel fiber has excellent electrical conductivity, corrosion resistance and good mechanical properties. Compared with cement, the ceramic waste powder has low electrical resistivity, low carbon property, pozzolanic activity and internal curing. The synergy between copper-plated steel fiber and waste ceramic powder is expected to endow concrete with excellent and stable piezoresistivity and a wide stress/strain monitoring range. Therefore, low-carbon and smart copper-plated steel fiber reinforced ultra high performance concrete with ceramic waste was prepared. Then, the effects of copper-plated steel fibers content on the slump, electrical and piezoresistivity properties under different failure load types of the ultra high performance concrete with ceramic waste were analyzed, and the stress-electricity constitutive model was established. The results show that the spread of ultra high performance concrete with waste ceramic powder reduces with increasing copper-plated steel fiber content, but still has self-leveling compacting characteristics. The copper-plated steel fiber can significantly reduce the direct current and alternating current resistivity of the ultra high performance concrete with ceramic waste. The copper-plated steel fiber greatly improves the fractional change in resistivity and stress/strain sensitivity of the ultra high performance concrete with ceramic waste under ultimate flexural and compressive loads, and the piezoresistivity properties are better under the fracture failure condition. According to the stress-electricity constitutive model, both the fractional change in resistivity and stress/strain curves basically follow the cubic polynomial function relationship. Therefore, the copper-plated steel fiber reinforced ultra high performance concrete with ceramic waste can be used to monitor the stress/strain of concrete structures through testing resistivity.