Journal
CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 12-19Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2014.04.005
Keywords
Admixture; Adsorption; Rheology; Dispersion; Viscosity
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In this paper, we study the physical mechanisms at the origin of a decrease in viscosity of concentrated cement pastes containing adsorbing polymers. We suggest from our results, similar to other authors, that plasticizers are able to decrease viscous dissipation by modifying the flocculation state of the system, which, in turn, impacts the way shear localizes. Our experimental results suggest that shear concentrates in fluid layers, the thickness of which scales with the surface-to-surface separating distance between cement grains imposed by the adsorbed polymer conformation. These effects being identical for all polymers, we suggest that the residual difference between polymers in the final macroscopic viscosity comes from the more or less pronounced increase in the local viscosity of the interstitial fluid between neighboring particles. This increase could either be correlated to the concentration of non-adsorbed coils in the interstitial fluid or to the local concentration of adsorbed coil side chains. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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