Characterization of pore structure in cement-based materials using pressurization–depressurization cycling mercury intrusion porosimetry (PDC-MIP)

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 1120-1128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Zhou ◽  
Guang Ye ◽  
Klaas van Breugel
2010 ◽  
Vol 168-170 ◽  
pp. 615-618
Author(s):  
Zhi Qin Du ◽  
Wei Sun

The effect of different quantity of air-entraining agent on the impermeability of cement-based materials are studied in this paper. Impermeability test and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) method were used to characterize the impermeability and pore structures. The fractal dimension is used to describe the characteristic of pore structure and calculated by the data of MIP experiment. The result shows that owing to the improvement of pore structure, the impermeability performance of the cement-based composites is noticeably enhanced when air-entraining agent is added with appropriate quantity.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1004-1005 ◽  
pp. 1589-1593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Zhang ◽  
Xi Ling Zhou ◽  
Ke Ren Zheng ◽  
You Jun Xie ◽  
Qiang Fu

To know the pore structure of cement-asphalt pastes, mercury intrusion porosimetry was applied to measure the total porosity, pore distribution and accumulative volume distribution of pore size and the pore structures were analyzed. The results show that the total porosities decline with increase in ages and reduction in A/C ratio. The total porosities declines from 28% at 1d, to 15.8%~17.2% at 28d; the most probable pore size declines from 20nm at 1d to 5nm at 28d.At 28d, there is an increase in the magnitude of pore size between100nm and 5μm; the volume faction of smaller than 5μm is 40~50%; and the amount of pore size smaller than 5nm account for 6%.There are two peaks (5μm & 50μm) in the curves of pore distribution.


2012 ◽  
Vol 517 ◽  
pp. 403-410
Author(s):  
Jia Xiao ◽  
Bao Guo Ma ◽  
Rong Zhen Dong ◽  
Cai Yun Xu

The effect of ground limestone fineness on the properties and mechanism of cement-based composite materials was investigated. The setting times, fluidity and strength of cement mortar were measured. In order to identify the mechanism effect of ground limestone fineness on the microstructure of the hardened cement pastes, microstructure analyses such as calorimetry analysis and Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) were also performed. Experimental results indicated that the setting times are shortened, and the fluidity and strength of cement mortar are improved with the ground limestone fineness increases. The increase of the ground limestone fineness can effectively inhibit the pore structure of hardened paste, which due to mortar and paste samples incorporating replacement levels of ground limestone, and improve the pore structure of hardened paste.


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