Modelling the effect of plastic sheet curing on early age temperature development in concrete pavement

Dongya Ren*, Lambert Houben

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Abstract

Prediction of the temperature development at an early age is a good starting point to assess the development of the restrained thermal stress and thermal cracking in rigid pavements. This paper presents a numerical early age concrete pavement temperature prediction model. It enables to evaluate the effect of various paving conditions, such as paving time, curing method, air temperature, wind speed, and the concrete placement temperature, on the early age concrete pavement performance. A critical review of current heat flux models at the pavement surface covered with a plastic sheet is presented. An extension of existing models to quantify the effect of the plastic sheet curing method is introduced, based on the energy balance method. The numerical implementation procedure for the proposed temperature prediction model is solved by the finite difference method. The temperature prediction model was verified with field measured data of two test sections. The predicted temperature shows a satisfying match with field measured data. Lastly, the effect of plastic sheet curing and its duration on the development of the pavement temperature was analysed by the proposed theoretical model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)559-570
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Pavement Engineering
Volume21 (2020)
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2018

Keywords

  • concrete pavement
  • early age
  • plastic sheet curing
  • Temperature prediction

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