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The authors have carried out the experiments to identify the effects on fluidity, resistance to segregation, strength, Young's modulus, dry shrinkage and durability of high-strength concrete when unit water content was varied in high-strength concrete while unit bulk volume of coarse aggregate was fixed, or the volumetric ratios of cement paste and fine aggregate were varied.
Three types of cement, ordinary Portland cement, moderate-heat Portland cement and low-heat Portland cement, were used. Limestones were adopted as coarse aggregate. Water-cement ratio was varied with 45, 35 and 25%.
Analysis were carried out in concern with properties of fresh concrete, properties of concrete hardening, and properties of hardened concrete where unit water content was varied.
When water-cement ratio was 35%, changes in the properties of high-strength concrete with hard sandstones used as coarse aggregate owing to the increase of unit water content were also examined.
As a result of the experiments, it was found that increasing of the water content caused no segregation of materials, facilitation of handling, reducing of changes in the retention of slump and slump flow, increasing of flow velocity in L-box tests and increasing of bleeding only slightly. Few effects were observed on the initial properties and on the properties of hardened concrete.
Based on the above, it is assumed that slightly increased unit water content in the range between 5 to 10 kg/m3 in high-strength concrete with fixed unit bulk volume of coarse aggregate will improve construction performance without great affection of the quality parameters while the deterioration of the parameters has been afraid when unit water content was increased.
