Self-sensing performance of cementitious composites with electrostatic self-assembly carbon nanotube/titanium dioxide
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摘要: 基于体积排阻效应,采用导电性能优异的碳纳米管(CNT)和微尺度二氧化钛(TiO2)通过静电自组装技术制得CNT/TiO2复合填料并将其与水泥基材料复合,有望发展具有优异自感知性能的水泥基复合材料。为此,对静电自组装CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料的电学性能及加载幅值、加载速率和含水率等不同环境条件下的自感知性能进行了研究,并分析了静电自组装CNT/TiO2复合填料对水泥基复合材料电学性能和自感知性能的改善机制,最后对比了不同环境因素对自感知性能的影响规律。研究结果表明,当CNT的体积掺量为2.40vol%时,静电自组装CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料的电阻率降低了99.8%。在循环压缩荷载作用下,静电自组装CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料的最大电阻率变化率达到49.23%,应力灵敏度和应变灵敏度分别达到8.21%/MPa和812。当加载幅值、加载速率及含水率不同时,静电自组装CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料均表现出优异的感知性能,其中灵敏度随着加载幅值和加载速率的增加分别降低和提高,但最大电阻率变化率、应力灵敏度和应变灵敏度均随着含水率降低而提高。50℃全烘干状态时,静电自组装CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料的最大电阻率变化率、应力和应变灵敏度分别达到74.36%、12.39%/MPa和1350。不同环境因素对静电自组装CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料自感知性能的影响大小顺序为:含水率、加载幅值和加载速率。Abstract: Carbon nanotube/titanium dioxide (CNT/TiO2) composite fillers were obtained using electrostatic self-assembly technology with combining conductive CNT and microscale TiO2 based on excluded volume effect. And then, cementitious composites with electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2 was used to develop cementitious composites with excellent self-sensing performance. The electrical properties of cementitious composites with electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2 were investigated. At the same time, the effects of different environmental conditions on self-sensing performance also were studied including loading amplitudes, loading rates and water content. Additionally, modification mechanisms of electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2 composite fillers on electrical and self-sensing performance of cementitious composites were also analyzed. Finally, the effect of different environmental factors on self-sensing performance were compared by radar chart. The results show that electrical resistivity of cementitious composites with electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2 is decreased by 99.8% when the volume content of CNT is 2.40vol%. Its maximum fractional change in resistivity is up to 49.23% under cyclic compression. Meanwhile, its stress sensitivity and strain sensitivity can reach 8.21%/MPa and 812, respectively. The cementitious composites with electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2 present excellent self-sensing performance under different loading amplitudes, loading rates and water content. The sensitivities decrease with increasing of the loading amplitudes but increase with increasing of loading rates. In addition, the maximum fractional change in resistivity, stress and strain sensitivities increase with the decreasing of the water content. The maximum fractional change in resistivity, stress sensitivity and strain sensitivity of cementitious composites with electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2 can reach 74.36%, 12.39%/MPa and 1350 under full drying at 50℃, respectively. The radar chart demonstrates that the important orders of the different environmental factors effect on self-sensing performance is water content, loading amplitudes and loading rates.
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表 1 静电自组装CNT/TiO2复合填料的主要性质
Table 1. Main properties of electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2 composite fillers
Properties Values Mass ratio of CNT∶TiO2 20∶80 Resistivity of CNT/TiO2 composite fillers /(Ω∙cm) <2 Density of CNT/(g∙cm−3) 2.1 CNT purity/wt% >90 Outer diameter of CNT/nm >50 Inner diameter of CNT/nm 5-15 Length of CNT/μm 10-20 Special surface area of CNT/(m2∙g−1) >60 表 2 静电自组装CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料的配合比
Table 2. Mix proportion of cementitious composite with electrostatic self-assembly CNT/TiO2
Specimen code Binder CNT/TiO2/vol%
(CNT/vol%)Water Sand SP/wt% Cement Silica fume 0.00vol%CNT 0.9 0.1 0.00
(0.00)0.4 1.5 0.2 2.40vol%CNT 0.9 0.1 7.17
(2.40)0.4 1.5 0.2 Note: SP—Superplasticizer. 表 3 CNT或CNT复合填料水泥基复合材料的电阻率对比
Table 3. Comparison of electrical resistivity of cementitious composites with CNT or CNT composite fillers
表 4 循环荷载为6 MPa时CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料的自感知性能评价指标
Table 4. Self-sensing performance evaluation indexes of cementitious composites with CNT/TiO2 under repeated compressive loading with stress amplitude of 6 MPa
Specimen code Maximum
FCR/%Stress
sensitivity/
(%∙MPa−1)Strain
sensitivity0.00vol%CNT 0.00 0.00 0 2.40vol%CNT 49.23 8.21 812 Note: FCR—Fractional change in resistivity. 表 5 CNT或CNT复合填料水泥基复合材料在循环压缩荷载作用下的FCR、SE和SA对比
Table 5. Comparison of FCR, SE and SA of cementitious composites with CNT or CNT composite fillers under repeated compressive loading
Type CNT content Maximum FCR/% SE/
(%∙MPa−1)SA Ref. CNT/TiO2 2.40vol% 49.23 8.210 812.0 This paper CNT/NCB 0.86vol% 6.80 1.650 200.0 [33] 0.96vol% 16.00 2.667 — [22] CNT 1.70vol% 19.31 1.930 — [29] 1.31vol% — 1.470 132.0 [34] 5.10wt% — 2.870 748.0 [35] 1.00wt% 21.01 — 34.0 [36] 0.50wt% 0.82 0.052 10.6 [31] Note: SE, SA, NCB and RF—Stress sensitivity, strain sensitivity, nano carbon black and references, respectively. 表 6 体积排阻效应对水泥基复合材料中CNT掺量的影响
Table 6. Effect of excluded volume effect on CNT content of cementitious composites
CNT content
/vol%Effective CNT content/vol% Increase of CNT content/% 2.40 2.52 5.00 表 7 CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料的稳健标准误回归结果
Table 7. Results of robust standard error regression of cementitious composites with CNT/TiO2
y Model 1 Model 2 x1 x12 x2 x22 Coefficient −16.79713 1.84126 −0.15315 1.461×10−4 Robust standard error 0.5250 0.10431 0.00280 5.34×10−6 t −31.99 17.65 −54.70 27.38 p>|t| 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 F(2, 601) 6100.06 21217.88 prob>F 0.0000 0.0000 R2 0.8650 0.9574 Notes: y—Fractional change in resistivity; x1, x12, x2 and x22—Stress, square of stress, strain and square of strain, respectively; t—Method used to test the significance of each variable in a regression equation; p—Probability distribution; F—Method used to test the overall significance of regression equations; Model 1: y=(−16.79713 ± 0.5321)x1+(1.84126±0.11559)x12; Model 2: y=(−0.15315±0.00289 )x2+(1.46071×10−4±5.90463×10−6)x22. 表 8 CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料在不同循环荷载时的自感知性能评价指标
Table 8. Self-sensing performance evaluation indexes of cementitious composites with CNT/TiO2 under different compressive stress amplitudes
Amplitude
/MPaMaximum FCR/% Stress sensitivity
/(%∙MPa−1)Strain sensitivity 4 47.10 11.78 1077 6 53.17 8.86 881 8 58.21 7.28 801 表 9 CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料在不同加载速率时的自感知性能评价指标
Table 9. Self-sensing performance evaluation indexes of cementitious composites with CNT/TiO2 under different loading rates
Rate/ (mm∙min−1) Maximum FCR/% Stress sensiti-
vity/(%∙MPa−1)Strain sensitivity 0.4 50.86 8.48 842 0.6 52.02 8.67 864 0.8 52.56 8.76 876 表 10 CNT/TiO2水泥基复合材料在不同含水率作用下的自感知性能评价指标
Table 10. Self-sensing performance evaluation indexes of cementitious composites with CNT/TiO2 under different water content
Water
stateWater content
/%Maximum FCR/% Stress sensitivity
/(%∙MPa−1)Strain sensitivity Wet 100 49.23 8.21 812 Drying at 50℃ for 24 h 28 60.23 10.04 1035 Full drying at 50℃ 0 74.36 12.39 1350 -
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