Journal
CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 14-22Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2015.04.016
Keywords
(B) Calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H); (D) Blended cement; (D) Silica fume; (B) SEM; (B) TEM
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [130419]
- Nagra (National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste)
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New results show that the microstructure development of cement-silica fume blends is very different from plain cement. Portlandite (CH) tends to precipitate as platelets and even around clinker grains as CH rims and is consumed by pozzolanic reaction with silica fume. The Ca/Si ratio in the inner product (IP) C-S-H decreases as CH is consumed to reach Ca/Si approximate to 1.40-1.50 at the point when CH has disappeared, and then drops down to 1.00 in absence of CH. At later ages, the IP C-S-H is often composed of two distinct regions. The outermost (formed first) consists of originally high Ca/Si C-S-H, which Ca/Si slowly decreases. The second (formed later) forms only once CH is no longer present and has a lower Ca/Si. Between 10 and 38 degrees C, the main effect of increasing the temperature is to accelerate the reaction of cement and increase the reactivity of silica fume. The changes in Ca and Si in the pore solution of similar systems suggest that the composition of the solution and the solids reciprocally influence each other. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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