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The conventional cement concrete pavement curing is frequently criticized for large water consumption, high labor intensity, high cost, non-uniformed curing quality and other problems. With an attempt to solve these problems, the research of this paper, supported by some concrete pavement construction projects and some concrete pillar construction projects in China, explored to develop a new type of curing membrane from the controllable high polymer materials for the concrete curing to achieve the water saving and moisture retaining. The curing membrane for water-saving and moisture-retaining was developed with a new type of controllable high polymer as the interlayer material, with a specialized plastic membrane as the carrier, and with the concrete hydration principle as the theoretical background. In the research of this paper, a series of tests were done to measure temperature and humidity of the concrete cured by different methods. Furthermore, strength, carbonization depth and cracking of the concrete slabs under different types of curing were also tested. The results indicated that (1) the use of the new-type water-saving and moisture-retaining membranes to cure the concrete for 28 days could retain the surface humidity of concrete up to greater than 90%; (2) the microcracks of the concrete slabs during summer construction were reduced by the combined use of a curing agent and the new-type water-saving and moisture-retaining membrane; and (3) compared with the natural curing, carbonization depth of the concrete cured by the new-type curing membrane for 90 days was reduced by 60% while the concrete strength increased by 8.6 MPa, up to 51.6 MPa.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 51578080 and Grant 51178064.
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Yao, Jl., Wang, Zq., Tang, Dh. (2019). Development and Application of Water-Saving and Moisture-Retaining Membrane Made from Controllable High Polymer Materials for Concrete Curing. In: Steyn, W., Holleran, I., Nam, B. (eds) Pavement Materials and Associated Geotechnical Aspects of Civil Infrastructures. GeoChina 2018. Sustainable Civil Infrastructures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95759-3_1
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