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CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages 733-742Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.10.059
Keywords
Chloride ions; Salt-fog environments; Drying-wetting cycles; Mortar; Supplementary cementitious materials
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- National Basic Research Program (973 Program), of the People's Republic of China [2015CB655103]
- National Natural Science Foundation [51578497, 51320105013, 51478419]
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In this work, the chloride ingress profiles and binding capacity of mortar subjected to cyclic drying wetting salt-fog atmospheric environments were experimentally investigated. In particular, the free and total chloride concentration, internal relative humidity, and pore size distribution of six mortar with various water-to-cement ratios and additions of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) were measured. The results show that a convection zone with a depth of 5-12 mm exists in mortar under cyclic salt-fog drying-wetting conditions. The exposure orientation significantly affects the chloride concentration but not the depth of convection zone. The incorporation of SCMs reduces the free chloride content in the deep depth but tends to enlarge it within the skin layers. A strong linear relationship between free and total chloride can be established, regardless of the type of mixture. The chloride binding capacity tends to decline with the increasing free chloride content in mortar, especially when free chloride content being larger than 0.1% by weight of mortar. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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