Experimental study on the influence of mixing time on concrete performance under different mixing modes

Abstract

To study the influence of different mixing times on the performance of concrete under vibration mixing and conventional mixing, C40 and C60 are selected in this paper to verify the influence of mixing time of 60, 75, 90, 105, and 120 s on the compressive strength and durability of concrete comparing vibration mixing and common forced mixing. The results show that the early strength of concrete is more significantly improved in 3 and 7 day; the strength with vibration mixing for mixing 105 s in each age is higher than that of conventional mixing at 120 s; under the condition of guaranteed strength, the mixing time of at least 15 s can be reduced. The strength of C40 concrete with vibration mixing has a peak value with the corresponding mixing time of 105 s, and the rapid growth stage of compressive strength is 15 s earlier than that of conventional mixing. For all mixing time, the electric flux of vibrated concrete is significantly smaller than that of forced concrete, and the change rate is generally above 10%; compared with conventional mixing for 120 s, the durability of C40 and C60 concrete increases by 11.8 and 11.1%, respectively, at the time of vibration mixing for 105 s. It was found that under the same mixing time, the compressive strength of concrete with vibration mixing method is higher than that of conventional mixing. In a certain range, the durability of concrete can be improved by prolonging the mixing time.

Keywords

• concrete
• vibration mixing
• mixing time
• compressive strength
• durability