Single and combined effects of nano-SiO2, nano-Al2O3 and nano-Fe2O3 powders on compressive strength and capillary permeability of cement mortar containing silica fume

2011 ◽  
Vol 528 (22-23) ◽  
pp. 7012-7019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meral Oltulu ◽  
Remzi Şahin
Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ping Xu ◽  
Rui Shi ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Yuhao Cui ◽  
Minxia Zhang

In order to develop textile reinforced concrete (TRC) with good flowability and strength, colloidal nano-SiO2 (CNS) is adopted to improve the performance of TRC. The flowability, compressive strength, flexural strength, and four-point bending tests of TRC matrix with CNS are carried out, and the changes of internal micromorphological characteristics of TRC matrix are analyzed by combining with scanning electron microscopy. The results show that the CNS has an inhibitory effect on the flowability of TRC matrix, and the greater the amount of admixture is, the smaller the slump expansion of TRC matrix is. The compressive strength and flexural strength of TRC matrix show a trend of increasing and then decreasing as the amount of CNS increases, and the compressive strength reaches the maximum at each age (7 d, 14 d, 28 d) when CNS and silica fume replace 5% cement by 1 : 4 equal mass. The flexural strength reaches the maximum at each age (7 d, 14 d, 28 d) when 5% cement is replaced by CNS and silica fume with 3 : 7 equal mass. The flexural strength increases with the increase of CNS admixture. It is found by electron microscope scanning that the incorporation of CNS consumes more Ca(OH)2, refines the Ca(OH)2 crystal size, and generates more C-S-H gels. These C-S-H gels are distributed in a net-like pattern inside the concrete, filling the internal pores, effectively densifying the interfacial transition zone between the cementitious material and the aggregates, and optimizing the internal structure.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1049-1054
Author(s):  
Yunxia Lun ◽  
Fangfang Zheng

This study is aimed at exploring the effect of steel slag powder (SSP), fly ash (FA), and silica fume (SF) on the mechanical properties and durability of cement mortar. SSP, SF, and FA were used as partial replacement of the Ordinary Portland cement (OPC). It was showed that the compressive and bending strength of steel slag powder were slightly lower than that of OPC. An increase in the SSP content caused a decrease in strength. However, the growth rate of compressive strength of SSP2 (20% replacement by the weight of OPC) at the curing ages of 90 days was about 8% higher than that of OPC, and the durability of SSP2 was better than that of OPC. The combination of mineral admixtures improved the later strength, water impermeability, and sulfate resistance compared with OPC and SSP2. The compressive strength of SSPFA (SSP and SF) at 90 days reached 70.3 MPa. The results of X-ray diffraction patterns and scanning electron microscopy indicated that SSP played a synergistic role with FA or SF to improve the performance of cement mortar.


2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
Lam Le Hong ◽  
Lam Dao Duy ◽  
Huu Pham Duy

The demand for High Performance Concrete (HPC) is steadily increasing with massive developments. Conventionally, it is possible to use industrial products such as silica fume (SF), fly ash, as supplementary cementitious materials (SCM), to enhance the attributes of HPC. In recent years, nano-silica (NS) is used as an additive in added mainly to fill up the deviation arises with the addition of SF for HPC. This study aims to optimize the proportion of NS (produced in Vietnam) in the mixture used for fabricating 70 MPa high-performance concrete. SiO2 powder with particle size from 10 to 15 nm were used for mixing. A series of compressive strength test of HPC with nano-SiO2 varied from 0 to 2.8 percent of total of all binders (0%, 1.2%, 2%, 2.8%), and the fixed percentage of silica fume at 8% were proposed. Results show compressive strength increases with the increase of nano-SiO2, but this increase stops after reaching 2%. And at day 28 of the curing period, only concrete mixture containing of 8% silica fume and 2% nano-SiO2, had the highest compressive strength.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 6654
Author(s):  
Jakub Popławski ◽  
Małgorzata Lelusz

Biomass combustion is a significant new source of green energy in the European Union. The adequate utilization of byproducts created during that process is a growing challenge for the energy industry. Biomass fly ash could be used in cement composite production after appropriate activation of that material. This study had been conducted to assess the usefulness of mechanical and physical activation methods (grinding and sieving), as well as activation through the addition of active silica in the form of silica fume, as potential methods with which to activate biomass fly ash. Setting time, compressive strength, water absorption and bulk density tests were performed on fresh and hardened mortar. While all activation methods influenced the compressive strength development of cement mortar with fly ash, sieving of the biomass fly ash enhanced the early compressive strength of cement mortar. The use of active silica in the form of silica fume ensured higher compressive strength results than those of control specimens throughout the entire measurement period.


2011 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 310-313
Author(s):  
Zhi Gang Liu ◽  
Li Rong Yang ◽  
Jun Cong Wei ◽  
Bao Hui Zhao ◽  
Xiao Xin Feng

The compressive strength and piezoresistive property of cement mortar with low adding level of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were investigated. Experimental results showed that the compressive strength of the MWCNTs/cement mortars increased with the adding amount of MWCNTs content for all the curing ages. Silica fume promoted the compressive strength development by well bonding with MWCNTs and filling effect. The electrical resistance changed synchronously with the compressive strength and the amount of the changes varied with the stress and MWCNTs addition levels. Higher MWCNTs doping level improved the piezoresistive sensitivity of the mortar. The mortar with silica fume (5-10% by weight of cement) exhibited better piezoresistive response than that without silica fume at the same MWCNTs doping levels.


2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 482-488
Author(s):  
Hai Bo Zhang ◽  
Xue Mao Guan ◽  
Hai Tao Shang

This paper examined the mechanical property of rubber mortars with different amount of rubber granules addition and the influence of fly ash, slag and silica fume. The increase of rubber granules results in the decrease in compressive and flexural strength of rubber mortar, but increases the ratio of flexural to compressive strength. The fly ash, slag and silica fume are useful for improving the mechanical property of mortar. The examined contact angle of water against rubber is 99.5°, which suggests the rubber surface is hydrophobic, and the hydrophobic surface interprets the weak interface between rubber and cement matrix.


2020 ◽  
Vol 870 ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Nahla N. Hilal ◽  
Mohammed T. Nawar ◽  
Abdulkader I. Al-Hadithi

In the present work, the properties of Polyethylene Waste cement mortar containing Polyethylene Waste treated by a reactive material are tested and compared with normal Polyethylene Waste and normal cement mortar. The Polyethylene, which is cured by a different reactive material such as: (cement, a fly ash and silica fume) is used as fine as aggregate a volumetric fractional replacing of the sand in a cement mortar. The percent of replacement was 10% by volume, density, compressive strength, modulus of rupture, and absorption are tested for all mixes at variable ages. The current results display that the cure of Polyethylene by cement were significantly improves the characteristics of Polyethylene cement mortar. Moreover, the results show that all treatment improved properties of cement mortar as a compared with Polyethylene without treatment.


2014 ◽  
Vol 875-877 ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teuku Ferdiansyah ◽  
Hashim Abdul Razak

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the influence of mineral additives i.e. metakaolin, silica fume, rice ash and fly ash incorporating with nanocarbontubes mortar composites. The effects on compressive strength at 28 days were also discussed and presented. Cement content of 500 kg/m3, water/cement ratio of 0.6 and aggregate/cement ratio of 2.75 were adopted for the mix propotion. 1%, 3% and 5% of nanocarbontubes in mortar were combined with 15% of mineral additives. The results show that mixtures of nanocarbontubes with 15% of metakaolin produce better strength compared to normal mortar. Meanwhile with addition of fly ash and rice husk ash the strength were decreased. The electrical resistance for all mixes at 28 days were also discussed and presented. The higher percentages of nanocarbon with addition of all mineral additives resulted in lower electrical resistance properties


2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 1446-1449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Hong Cong ◽  
Bin Xue ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Xiao Wei Sun

Cement mortar as the basic material and the fly ash and silicon fume as the research object, experiment and research were operated through adjusting the admixture replacing dosage and changing the mixture ratio of silica fume and fly ash. By testing the fluidity and strength and data analysis and discussion, some conclusions are drawn from the analysis, such as: fly ash makes the fluidity increasing with the admixture replacing dosage below 30%, and the fluidity declines with the mixture ratio of silica fume and fly ash increasing. 7d compressive strength decreases with the admixture replacing dosage increasing, 7d compressive strength increases slowly with the mix ratio of silica fume and fly ash. With the mix ratio of silica fume and fly ash increasing, 28d compressive strength of mortar also increases, and proper mix ratio of silica fume and fly ash is 1:1.


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