Journal
CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
Volume 328, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.127117
Keywords
Portland cements; Hydration kinetics; Early age hydration measurements; Synchrotron radiation; Amorphous quantification
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- Junta de Andalucia [UMA18FEDERJA-095, P18-RT-720]
- FEDER
- I3 program [IEDI-2016-0079]
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This study employed a new method to analyze the crystallization behavior and dissolution rate of cement, providing a deeper understanding of the setting mechanism of Portland cement.
Setting of Portland cements is still not well understood. Previous studies used techniques that analyse the pastes as a whole to correlate setting times with degree of hydration. Here, in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysed by the Rietveld method, with internal standard methodology, is used to derive alite dissolution rate and the crystallization kinetics of ettringite and portlandite in three commercial cements. Moreover, C-S-H gel precipitation pace has also been determined. C-S-H gel precipitation is key to account for setting. For grey Portland cements with w/c = 0.5, initial setting is attained when alite degree of hydration is close to 20% and the C-S-H gel content reached approximately 6 vol%.
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