Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement (RCCP) is placed by roller compaction of a mixture of less cement and unit water content and more aggregates and provides excellent early strength development with the help of interlocking of aggregates and hydration. The unit cement content of RCC pavements accounts for 85% of conventional pavements, with low drying shrinkage. As low drying shrinkage leads to smaller crack widths than ordinary concrete, RCC pavements can help elevate reflecting crack resistance if applied to a base layer of a composite pavement system. In a composite pavement with an asphalt surface laid over a concrete base, pavement temperature change is important in predicting pavement performance. As movement of the lower concrete layer is determined by temperature depending on pavement depth, temperature data of the pavement structure serves as an important parameter to prevent and control reflecting crack. Among the causes of reflecting crack, horizontal behavior of the lower concrete layer and curling-caused vertical behavior of joints/cracks are considered closely related to temperature change characteristics of the lower concrete course (Baek, 2010). Previous studies at home and abroad about reflecting crack have focused on pavement behavior depending on daily and yearly in-service temperature changes of a composite pavement (Manuel, 2005). Until now, however, studies have not been conducted on initial temperature characteristics of concrete in composite pavements where asphalt surface is placed over an RCC base. Annual temperature changes of in-service concrete pavements go up to 60 ℃, and those of asphalt overlays become around the twice at 110 ℃. This study evaluated initial crack behavior of composite pavement by investigating pavement temperature by depth of an RCC base and analyzing joint movement depending on change to temperatures of continuously jointed pavements. Findings from the study suggest that in composite pavements and asphalt overlays, time of laying asphalt has an important impact on crack behavior and reflecting crack.

Thin-film composite (TFC) membrane is currently the most widely used membrane structure for reverse osmosis (RO) process. Most commercial membrane for RO consisted of porous support layer and dense polyamide permselective layer, yet the polyamide layer has a very rough surface morphology and considerable thickness, and these features are intrinsic properties of current RO membrane fabrication process. In this study, we present the new membrane fabrication, named layered interfacial polymerization (LIP). LIP could control the roughness and thickness of permselective layer without complicated process or significant membrane performance loss, and the performance itself was comparable to conventional IP membrane. Moreover, the fabricated membrane has a remarkable antifouling ability possibly due to the unique smooth morphology.

This study presents a governing equations of bending behavior of anisotropic sandwich plates with multi-layered laminated composite faces. Based on zig-zag models for through thickness deformations, the shear deformation of composite faces is included. All edges of plate are assumed to be simply supported. Results of the bending analysis under lateral loads are presented for the influence of various lay up sequences of antisymmetric angle-ply laminated faces. The accuracy of the approach is ascertained by comparing solutions from the sandwich plates theory with composite faces to the laminated plates theory. Since the present analysis considers the bending stiffness of the core and also the transverse shear deformations of the laminated faces, the proposed method showed higher than that calculated according to the general laminated plates theory. The information presented might be useful to design sandwich plates structure with polymer matrix composite faces.

Strain Hardening Cement-based Composites(SHCCs) are attractive materials for energy dissipation and crack damage mitigation. This study investigated the flexural performance of SHCC beams layered Strain-Hardening Cement-based Composite(SHCC). The flexural behavior of RC beams carried out four-point loading test. Test results indicated that PE30_20 compared with Con30 initial cracking load, the stiffness, the yielding strength was higher.