Journal
CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH
Volume 125, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2019.105865
Keywords
Foam; Rheology (A); Cement paste (D); Micro-tomography
Funding
- French government Grants by the French National Research Agency (ANR) [ANR-11LABX-022-01, ANR-13-RMNP-0003-01]
- French ANR through the EQUIPEX investment program, project NanoimagesX [ANR-11-EQPX-0031]
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We prepare and study cement foam samples with well-controlled structure, i.e. containing monodisperse bubbles. We observe that the foam structure often changes before cement setting and identify ripening as the major destabilization mechanism at stake. Drainage plays only a minor role in cement foam destabilization except when bubble size is large. Then we show that a single stability criterion can be defined, for a large range of cement foams with different formulations. This criterion involves the bubble radius and the yield stress of the cement paste such as confined by and between the bubbles, at a given characteristic time after sample preparation.
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