Journal
JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
Volume 500, Issue -, Pages 196-204Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2018.07.069
Keywords
Fly ash; Foam geopolymer; Pore generation; Open porosity; Mechanical properties; Acoustic properties
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The aim of this work is the development of a porous geopolymeric foam with sound absorbing properties using silica fume as the pore generation agent. The samples were manufactured using a coal combustion fly ash as source material for the geopolymerization reaction, an alkaline solution as activating solution and silica fume as pore forming agent. Three parameters were studied: silica fume proportion (0, 20 and 40 wt%), activating solution (potassium silicate and potassium hydroxide) and setting temperature (40 and 70 degrees C). Once the samples were prepared, the experimental study of the most important physical, mechanical and acoustic features were carried out. The increase in the proportion of silica fume in the mixture and setting temperature produced a reduction in setting time and a raise of open void porosity, reducing the compressive strength at 28 days up to a half but increasing the sound absorption. The influence of activating solution in open porosity and sound absorbing properties was not very important.
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