Journal
CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH
Volume 71, Issue -, Pages 115-123Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2015.02.001
Keywords
Admixture; Polymers; Adsorption; Rheology; CaCO3
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Superplasticizers and especially polycarboxylate grafted polyethylene oxide (PCE) demonstrated their efficiency to fluidify concrete. The aim of this work is to investigate the evolution of the fluidity as a function of adsorption in a sulfated solution with a wide variety of comb-like superplasticizers and at incomplete adsorption rate. Polymers with various side chain lengths, grafting ratios and also with modified anionic functions ( carboxylate, dicarboxylate and phosphate) were synthesized. Inert calcite suspensions were used to mimic early age cementitious materials avoiding the cement hydration. Models of polymer conformation and yield stress prediction have been tested. But the most appropriate parameter which captures the fluidity/adsorption relationship is the mass of adsorbed polymer. A unique relationship log(yield stress) vs. adsorbed mass of PCE has been highlighted whatever the classical carboxylate PCE structure. The modification of the anionic function does not enhance the fluidizing efficiency. Each PCE has roughly the same fluidizing efficiency when it manages to adsorb in these ionic conditions. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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