Journal
CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH
Volume 133, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2020.106045
Keywords
Water sorption; Diffusion; Cement paste; Anomalous transport; NMR
Funding
- European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks programme [764691]
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The link between anomalous water sorption and dynamic porosity in cement pastes is explored using spatially resolved GARField H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation analysis. A model is developed in which the effective capillary diffusion coefficient is dependent on the instantaneous pore size distribution. This and earlier data show changes in pore size distribution resultant from changes in saturation that do not occur instantaneously with changes in degree of saturation. Therefore, it is assumed that the pore size distribution is always relaxing exponentially towards a (saturation dependent) equilibrium. It follows that the diffusivity is sample history (Le. time) dependent as well as saturation dependent. This is sufficient to explain anomalies in rapid capillary water sorption. The same concepts are applied to slow drying. In this case, porosity changes occur on a timescale much shorter than drying so the system is always in dynamic equilibrium and anomalies are therefore not seen.
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