Fine particulate metallurgical by-products' influence on cement hydration and strength development: an initial study

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Moosberg-Bustnes ◽  
Lotta Lind ◽  
Eric Forssberg
Materials ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 541
Author(s):  
Liyun Cui ◽  
Peiyuan Chen ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
Ying Xu ◽  
Hao Wang

Recently, the massive accumulation of waste iron tailings powder (WITP) has resulted in significant environmental pollution. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an original mortar replacement (M) method to reuse waste solids and reduce cement consumption. In the experiment, the author employed an M method which replaces water, cement, and sand with WITP under constant water/cement and found that the strength development can be significantly improved. Specifically, a mortar with 20% WITP replacement can obtain a 30.95% improvement in strength development. To study the internal mechanism, we performed experiments such as thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), and SEM. The results demonstrate that the nucleation effect and pozzolanic effect of WITP can help promote cement hydration, and MIP reveals that WITP can effectively optimize pore structure. In addition, 1 kg 20% WITP mortar reduced cement consumption by 20%, which saves 19.98% of the economic cost. Comprehensively, our approach achieves the effective utilization of WITP and provides a favorable reference for practical engineering.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 168781401985194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianping Zhu ◽  
Genshen Li ◽  
Ruijie Xia ◽  
Huanhuan Hou ◽  
Haibin Yin ◽  
...  

Nanomaterial, as a new emerging material in the field of civil engineering, has been widely utilized to enhance the mechanical properties of cementitious material. Nano-SnO2 has presented high hardness characteristics, but there is little study of the application of nano-SnO2 in the cementitious materials. This study mainly investigated the hydration characteristics and strength development of Portland cement paste incorporating nano-SnO2 powders with 0%, 0.08%, and 0.20% dosage. It was found that the early-age compressive strength of cement paste could be greatly improved when nano-SnO2 was incorporated with 0.08% dosage. The hydration process and microstructure were then measured by hydraulic test machine, calorimeter, nanoindentation, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, and mercury intrusion porosimetry. It was found that the cement hydration process was promoted by the addition of nano-SnO2, and the total amount of heat released from cement hydration is also increased. In addition, the addition of nano-SnO2 can promote the generations of high density C-S-H and reduce the generations of low density C-S-H indicating the nucleation effect of nano-SnO2 in the crystal growth process. The porosity and probable pore diameter of cement paste with 0.08% nano-SnO2 were decreased, and the scanning electron microscopic results also show that the cement paste with 0.08% nano-SnO2 promotes the densification of cement microstructure, which are consistent with the strength performance.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole M. Jensen

ABSTRACTSilica fume is a very important supplementary cementitious binder in High-Performance and Ultra High-Performance Concretes. Through its pozzolanic reaction the silica fume densifies the concrete micro-structure, in particular it strengthens the paste-aggregate interfacial transition zone. In the present paper different aspects of the pozzolanic reaction of silica fume are investigated. These include chemical shrinkage, isothermal heat development and strength development. Key data for these are given and compared with theoretical calculations, and based on presented measurements the energy of activation of the pozzolanic reaction of silica fume is estimated. The results show that the pozzolanic reaction of silica fume has notable differences from Portland cement hydration.


Author(s):  
Dagmar Schmidtmeier ◽  
Geert Warns ◽  
Stefan Kuiper ◽  
Sebastian Klaus ◽  
Friedlinde Götz-Neunhöfer ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Maciej Gruszczyński ◽  
Grzegorz Bajorek

The subject of the paper is presentation of action mechanism and effectiveness estimation of different types of chemical admixtures that make it possible to control the course of shrinkage strains associated with cement hydration process. There are presented tests results from the research program realization in which there were used the basic types of admixtures allowing for producing mortars and concretes with reduced or compensated shrinkage. In conducted tests there were applied admixtures based on calcium oxide, multi-molecule alcohol as well as water polymer dispersions (styrene-acrylic co-polymer - SA and styrene-butadiene latex - SBR). Their influence onto the magnitude of shrinkage strain and strength development for cement mortars was analyzed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee M. Mors ◽  
Henk M. Jonkers

ABSTRACTA bacteria-based healing agent for concrete is currently under development in the Microlab of TU Delft. The agent consists of organic mineral precursor compound and bacteria in a protective reservoir. Cracks in the concrete matrix may be sealed and blocked by calcium carbonate based crystals, formed by bacterial conversion of mineral precursor compound. Given the solubility of the agent components, healing agent material may be prematurely released during the wet mixing stage, potentially influencing cement hydration and functionality of other concrete additions. Several materials have been selected as potential mineral precursor compound, being organic salts and a carbohydrate. Tests on standard mortar specimens show that strength development is not compromised when calcium lactate is added to the standard mixture. Calcium lactate was added to the mortar mixture either pure or in combination with a superplasticizer, either based on sulfonated naphthalene or modified polycarboxylate ether, to determine possible interferential effects.


2019 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 05003
Author(s):  
Gunawan Wibisono ◽  
Erwin ◽  
Alfian Kamaldi ◽  
Monita Olivia

Peat is an organic soil, highly compressible and has high water content. The soil needs to be stabilized chemically by incorporating binders such as cement and lime into the soil that will change the properties and soil strength. However, stabilization using cement solely is not recommended since the organic acid in peat soil could delay cement hydration process. Furthermore, mass stabilization using pozzolanic material also could improve strength development of peat soil. In this research, the pozzolanic material in the form of geopolymer hybrid or geopolymer with the addition of Ordinary Portland Cement was investigated. Geopolymer was produced by activating fly ash with a combination of NaOH and sodium silicate. OPC addition improves initial strength and assists geopolymerization at ambient temperature. Variables studied were binder content and a percentage of OPC, and percentage of fly ash. Unconfined Compressive Stress (UCS) at 7 days was measured for all specimens. Mass stabilization using fly ash geopolymer hybrid could improve strength development of peat soil.


Author(s):  
Dagmar Schmidtmeier ◽  
Geert Warns ◽  
Stefan Kuiper ◽  
Sebastian Klaus ◽  
Friedlinde Götz-Neunhöfer ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 4773-4780

Nowadays Environmental pollution is the major problem faced by the world. The emission of pollutants by construction industry during production of Portland cement are the main causes for environmental pollution. With the increase in use of industrial by products in our construction industry the pollution effect on environment can be reduced. Geopolymer is the one which uses by products and are environmentally friendly. In the present study to produced geopolymer the Portland cement is replaced with fly ash and fine aggregate is replaced with quarry dust and for binding materials alkaline are used. In this study for polymerization the alkaline solutions used are sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and Sodium silicate (Na2Sio3) solution. To prepare different mixes different molarities of sodium hydroxide solution i.e. 6M and 8M and comprehensive strength is calculated for each mix. The size of cube specimen considered are 150 mm x 150mm x 150mm.The comprehensive strength of geopolymer concrete specimen are tested at the age of 7,28 and 56 days. Mixes of different molarities 6M and 8M are prepared by varying the sodium hydroxide flakes amount in grams which are then cured in lab atmosphere and their strengths are calculated for 7,28 and 56 days. The results show that with the increase of the molarity of sodium hydroxide solution the comprehensive strength increases


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