Journal
CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages 1401-1406Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-8846(00)00327-6
Keywords
drying; shrinkage; pore size distribution; alkali-activated cement; granulated blast-furnace slag
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Higher drying shrinkage has been observed in alkali-activated slag concrete (AASC) than comparable ordinary Portland cement concrete (OPCC). However, the OPCC samples lost more moisture during the period of shrinkage measurements than the AASC samples. This is contradictory to the commonly accepted relationship between shrinkage and moisture loss. This paper provides an explanation for this phenomenon by studying the effect of pore size distribution on the drying shrinkage. The investigation showed that AAS pastes have a much higher proportion of pore sizes within the mesopore region than OPC pastes. Further, the radius of pores where the meniscus forms seems to be an important parameter in determining the magnitude of shrinkage, rather than the amount of moisture loss. This also supports the theory that the capillary tensile forces set up during drying is an important contributory factor for the drying shrinkage of concrete. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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