Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2023, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (7): 81-89.doi: 10.12141/j.issn.1000-565X.220638

Special Issue: 2023年土木建筑工程

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Experimental Investigation into Effect of Surface Roughness on Convective Heat Transfer of Concrete

ZHOU Linren LI Shaoji CHEN Lan   

  1. School of Civil Engineering and Transportation,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640,Guangdong,China
  • Received:2022-09-30 Online:2023-07-25 Published:2023-04-11
  • Contact: 周林仁(1982-),男,博士,副教授,主要从事桥梁结构健康监测、检测与状态评估等的研究。 E-mail:zhoulinren@scut.edu.cn
  • About author:周林仁(1982-),男,博士,副教授,主要从事桥梁结构健康监测、检测与状态评估等的研究。
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52078220)

Abstract:

The convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) is one of the important thermal parameters of concrete. At present, there are great differences in the selection of CHTC in the temperature-related research and engineering applications of building energy efficiency, structural temperature loading and temperature effects of concrete structures, and the influence of material surface conditions is not considered, all these directly affect the accuracy and reliability of the analysis results. In this paper, based on Newton's law of cooling and the principle of heat balance, a set of experimental determination system of CHTC of concrete surface was designed and constructed, and an experimental study on the CHTC of concrete surfaces with different roughness was carried out with a quantitative and controllable method of parameters to further improve and refine the quantitative calculation method of CHTC of concrete. The results show that the designed test system and method can well determine the CHTC of concrete surface in the component scale, and that the surface roughness significantly affects the convective heat exchange on concrete surface. At the wind speed of less than 10 m/s, the relative difference in CHTC of concrete surfaces with different roughness varies from 40.1% to 77.4%. The CHTC increases with the increase of surface roughness, and the forced convection is more greatly influenced by surface roughness than the natural convection. Moreover, based on the regression analysis of experimental data, the formulae for the CHTC of concrete surfaces with four typical roughness are derived, and the formulae for the CHTC of concrete considering the effects of coupled wind speed and surface roughness are also given. Some suggestions are finally given on how to determine the value of CHTC of concrete with the consideration of surface roughness in engineering.

Key words: concrete, convective heat transfer coefficient, surface roughness, laser scanning, regression analysis

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