Study on the Alteration of hydrogeological and mechanical properties of the cementitious material

not registered; Owada, Hitoshi*; Fujita, Hideki*; not registered; not registered; Yokozeki, Kosuke*; not registered

We acquired the water permeation properties and also mechanical characteristics of the altered specimen that produced by permeation or leaching as the fundamental data for the evaluation in "Study on the system development for evaluating long-term alteration of hydraulic field in Near Field" that had been carried out separately. The results in this year are shown below. (1)Hardened cement paste specimens with W/C=85% and 105% were altered and characterized after permeation. Permeability of altered part was increased, as permeated water increased. Porosity was increased at the upper part of altered specimens, and compressive strength that means the properties from altered part of specimens were decreased after water-permeation. Adequate correlations are estimated between compressive strength and porosity, permeability, Vickers hardness. From the chemical properties, it is presumed these physical changes were caused by dissolution of portlandite. (2)Hardened cement paste specimens with W/C=40 to 105% were immersed into deionized water and alteration behavior under diffusion condition was investigated. As a result, after 12 weeks, porosity was increasing and Vickers hardness was decreasing at the altered area. And the water permeability and the compressive strength at the deteriorated area were simulated from relations between water permeability, compressive strength, porosity, Vickers hardness and leaching ratio of calcium. These results suggest that two methods (permeation and leaching) make up for fault of each other. It is necessary to prepare additional data, to clarify the relations between each alteration factor.