scholarly journals On the hydration of Belite-Ye'elimite-Ferrite (BYF) cement pastes: Effect of the water-to-cement ratio and presence of fly ash

2020 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 106215
Author(s):  
Guilherme Yuuki Koga ◽  
Blandine Albert ◽  
Ricardo Pereira Nogueira
1986 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rattanussorn ◽  
D. M. Roy ◽  
R. I. A. Malek

ABSTRACTThe predominant spherical shape of fly ash particles combined with mainly glassy composition and texture of its surfaces have a special effect on rheology of cement pastes containing fly ash. The early ages rheological behavior of cement pastes (ASTM Type I) incorporating 30% low-calcium fly ash was monitored by measuring viscosity of the fresh pastes prior to initial hardening and stiffening (up to −2 hours) as a function of time. The viscosities were determined using a co-axial rotoviscometer (HAAKE). The effects of fly ash content, water to cement ratio, and presence and concentration of superplasticizer, were evaluated. In addition, the dispersivity of fly ash spheres was evaluated by determining the zeta-potential of fly ash suspensions in water using a microelectrophoresis technique and the results were correlated to the chemical composition of fly ash as well as the viscosities of fresh pastes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 875-877 ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Li ◽  
Hua Quan Yang ◽  
Ming Xia Li

The hydration degree of fly ash and the calcium hydroxide (CH) content were measured. Combined with the equilibrium calculation of cement hydration, a new method for assessment of the hydration degree of cement in the fly ash-cement (FC) pastes based on the CH content was developed. The results reveal that as the fly ash content increase, the hydration degree of fly ash and the CH content decrease gradually; at the same time, the hydration degree of cement increase. The hydration degree of cement in the FC pastes containing a high content of fly ash (more than 35%) at 360 days is as high as 80%, even some of which hydrates nearly completely. The effect of water-cement ratio to the hydration degree of cement in the FC pastes is far less distinct than that of the content of fly ash.


10.14311/1374 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ficker ◽  
D. Martišek ◽  
H. M. Jennings

. Seventy-eight graphs were plotted to describe and analyze the dependences of the height and roughness irregularities on the water-to-cement ratio and on the porosity of the cement hydrates. The results showed unambiguously that the water-to-cement ratio or equivalently the porosity of the specimens has a decisive influence on the irregularities of the fracture surfaces of this material. The experimental results indicated the possibility that the porosity or the value of the water-to-cement ratio might be inferred from the height irregularities of the fracture surfaces. It was hypothesized that there may be a similarly strong correlation between porosity and surface irregularity, on the one hand, and some other highly porous solids, on the other, and thus the same possibility to infer porosity from the surfaces of their fracture remnants.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 3883
Author(s):  
Seong Ho Han ◽  
Yubin Jun ◽  
Tae Yong Shin ◽  
Jae Hong Kim

Curing by CO2 is a way to utilize CO2 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Placing early-age cement paste in a CO2 chamber or pressure vessel accelerates its strength development. Cement carbonation is attributed to the quickened strength development, and CO2 uptake can be quantitatively evaluated by measuring CO2 gas pressure loss in the pressure vessel. A decrease in CO2 gas pressure is observed with all cement pastes and mortar samples regardless of the mix proportion and the casting method; one method involves compacting a low water-to-cement ratio mix, and the other method comprises a normal mix consolidated in a mold. The efficiency of the CO2 curing is superior when a 20% concentration of CO2 gas is supplied at a relative humidity of 75%. CO2 uptake in specimens with the same CO2 curing condition is different for each specimen size. As the specimen scale is larger, the depth of carbonation is smaller. Incorporating colloidal silica enhances the carbonation as well as the hydration of cement, which results in contributing to the increase in the 28-day strength.


2013 ◽  
Vol 795 ◽  
pp. 664-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roshasmawi Abdul Wahab ◽  
Mohd Noor Mazlee ◽  
Shamsul Baharin Jamaludin ◽  
Khairul Nizar Ismail

In this study, the mixing of polystyrene (PS) beads and fly ash as a sand replacement material in foamed cement composites (FCC) has been investigated. Specifically, the mechanical properties such as compressive strength and flexural strength were measured. Different proportions of fly ash were added in cement composites to replace the sand proportion at 3 wt. %, 6 wt. %, 9 wt. % and 12 wt. % respectively. The water to cement ratio was fixed at 0.65 meanwhile ratios of PS beads used was 0.25 volume percent of samples as a foaming agent. All samples at different mixed were cured at 7 and 28 days respectively. Based on the results of compressive strength, it was found that the compressive strength was increased with the increasing addition of fly ash. Meanwhile, flexural strength was decreased with the increasing addition of fly ash up to 9 wt. %. The foamed cement composites with 12 wt. % of fly ash produced the highest strength of compressive strength meanwhile 3 wt. % of fly ash produced the highest strength of flexural strength.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-219
Author(s):  
R. Gopalakrishnan ◽  
D. Govindarajan

The present works reports the hydration processes of Portland cement through Electron paramagnetic resonance study. Cement pastes in a Water to cement ratio (W/C) of 0.4 at different hydration time intervals have been prepared. The g-factor of Fe(III) and Mn(II) impurities at different hydration ages has been related to changes in setting time of cement. Both gFe and gMn values are reach a maximum values at final setting time of OPC paste.


2017 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 337-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.O. Korovkin ◽  
N.A. Eroshkina

The influence of the milled opoka of Penza field and blast-furnace slag with the polycarboxylate superplasticizer present on the properties of mortar component of the concrete based on blended cement, including Portland cement, fly ash, blast-furnace slag, silica fume, and microquartz has been investigated. Some equations for the dependency of water requirement of the cement mortar component, as well as of its strength with various values of time on proportion of superplasticizer and components of blended binder have been developed. It has been shown that the introduction of opoka increases the water requirement of the mix, insignificantly decreasing the strength, when proportioned up to 15%. The detrimental effect of opoka on the strength considerably reduces with higher superplasticizer content and lower water-to-cement ratio.


2016 ◽  
Vol 852 ◽  
pp. 1468-1472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Qing Qi ◽  
Hong Tao Wang ◽  
Jian Hua Ding ◽  
Shi Hao Zhang

The influence of magnesium to phosphate weight ratios (M/P ratio), borax content, water to cement ratio (w/c ratio), fly ash, slag on magnesium phosphate cement of drying shrinkage is examined.The results show that the drying shrinkage of magnesium phosphate cementcan be affected at some extent by M/P ratio, w/c ratio,boraxcontent. Both the former two factors and the effects are significant.It was found that the drying shrinkage of magnesium phosphate cement decrease with the increase of M/P ratio,borax content, w/c ratio. If the 10%, 15% offly ashinstead of magnesium phosphate cement was added, drying shrinkage rate decreases with increases of dosage fly ash. When the 15% of magnesium phosphate cement is replaced by fly ash, the shrinkage rate of hydration 20d reachs11.2×10-5. When the 10% of magnesium phosphate cementis replaced by slag, the drying shrinkage rate reducedto 87.6%.comparing to the bench mark ,the drying shrinkage rate of 20d is only 2.78×10-5.


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