enhances its properties regarding strength, durability, workability and economy. They act as pozzolanic materials as well as micro fil. ers; thereby the microstructure of hardened concrete …
The strength characteristics like compressive strength are evaluated and compared test results of standard concrete and concrete with replacing different %age of silica fume by weight of cement at ...
Discover the common chemical properties of minerals, how they affect physical properties, and the significance of luster, color, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, specific gravity, and crystal systems. Learn how mineral chemical properties can provide valuable insights into the composition and behavior of minerals.
Concha and Baccay (2020) examined the effect of mineral and chemical additives on the rheology of SCCs, with the increasing amount of air entrained additive and superplasticizer significantly ...
The tests have shown that with the increase of mineral additive content up to 10% the compressive strength of concrete after 7, 28 days and 6 months of curing increased up to …
Lightweight high-strength concrete materials have been paid increasing attention with the development of the civil engineering technology. This study tested the effects of the admixture ratio on ...
properties, physical properti and mineral es contents which can affect the rock strength as these minerals interlock and bond between them. Cementation is the precipitation of mineral matter (cement) in pores within sediments or rocks and these minerals bonded together in rocks. The strength of rockis increasing proportionally to the
Ir regular particle-distribution system and the more dosage of the mineral admixtures negatively affect the strengths of the mixes. The modulus of elasticity of the mixes is slightly lower than ...
A material other than water, aggregates, or cement that is used as an ingredient of concrete or mortar to control setting and early hardening, workability, or to provide additional cementing properties. Admixtures of concrete are generally used to alter the properties of concrete (such as increased workability or reduced water content, acceleration or retardation …
Among them, nano-SiO 2 has the highest increase in energy absorption capacity, about 15% more than the reference group, suggesting that these composite mineral admixtures and micro/nano-particle powders have a good effect on improving the strength of steam-cured concrete and thereby enhancing its ability to resist deformation. However, the ...
This effect has been increased with the use of natural hydrocolloids namely, guar gum and gum Arabic, which when mixed with concrete increased its strength and a mere percentage of 0.5% of gum ...
compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity for concrete. The aim of this work is to study the effect of mineral admixture available in Algeria such as limestone powder, granulated slag and natural pozzolana on the correlation between compressive strength and corresponding ultrasonic pulse velocity for self-compacti ng
The influence regularity is obtained on compressive strength at different periods of high-performance concrete by main influencing factors such as water-cement ratio, admixture amount, sand rate ...
Portland cement concrete is durable in most natural environments; however, concrete is sometimes used in areas where it is exposed to substances that can attack and deteriorate it. …
Chemical admixtures also have leaching problems, in which the hardened concrete would be of importance where concrete is in contact with drinking water and in normal structures where leaching ...
Plot of compressive strength against curing time for mix-1 Similar trend with decrease in strength from 25.24 MPa at 14 days to 20.28MPa at 21 days and later increase to 38.96MPa at 90 days were ...
Some of these properties can be named as high compressive strength, great vibration damping properties, high specific stiffness and strength, resistance to chemicals and corrosion, rapid curing ...
All mineral admixtures enhance the mechanical properties of concrete except FA and GGBS which do not show a significant effect on the strength of concrete at 28 days; however, gain in strength at ...
In this paper the effect of fly-ash on workability, setting time, density, air content, compressive strength, modulus of elasticity are studied Based on this study compressive strength v/s W/C ...
In the present work, the effect of mineral aggregates (pumice stone and expanded clay aggregates) and chemical admixtures (superplasticizers and shrinkage reducing …
One of the low cost techniques is to modify the soil with lime in-situ to make it workable for construction and allow it to increase in strength by pozzolanic reactions between lime and clay minerals.
Fly ash and silica fume were two examples of mineral admixtures that were included in the concrete mixes. Parameters like compressive strength, tensile strength, and …
The cost per unit compressive strength of concrete with sulfonated naphthalene polymer-based superplasticizer is lower compared with the concretes with other types of chemical admixture. View Show ...
Factors influencing strength Several factors which affect the strength of concrete are listed below: Influence of the constituent materials (cement, water, aggregate, admixtures). Influence of the methods of preparation. Influence of curing Influence …
It is also tried to investigate the strength and durability aspect of HPC-M70 grade and to establish the influence of the used mineral and chemical admixtures on their properties. Kjellsen et al. studied the effective strength of performance concrete to produce M140 grade concrete using W/B ratio from 0.25 to 0.4. The 10% cement was also ...
grinding time affect the strength of lightweight concrete, since the most recommended is the effect of F A after 5 -10 minutes of mechanical grinding with light aggregate concrete ash. [67]
This paper presents the experimental investigations on the effect of sea water on the compressive strength of concrete. Cement concrete cubes of 150mm x 150mm x 150mm were cast using fresh water ...
The effect of the additives on the compressive strength, split tensile strength, the corrosion rate of the reinforcement steel rebar and the ability of electrical energy being harnessed from the ...
In [64, 72,78,94], the effect of the freeze-thaw cycles on the interface bonding strength of UHPC-NC was investigated. The interface bonding strength decreased as the number of freeze-thaw cycles ...
The strength of the flexural members depends on the strength of the steel and concrete used. Strength of the concrete can be increased by improving the crack resistance.
Uysal and Yilmaz, 2011 [10], investigated that the effect of limestone powder, basalt powder, and marble powder as a mineral admixture on the fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting ...
Concrete is an artificial composite material made up of four main components: cement, fine aggregates, coarse aggregates, and water. Because of its adaptability, durability, and economic issues ...
Quality of concrete can be improved by adding different mineral admixtures: metakaolin, GGBS, Fly Ash, Rice Husk Ash, Palm Oil Fuel Ash and Silica Fume. Mineral …
In the experimental section, the developed fly ash concrete obtained maximum compressive strength of 83.50 N / mm ², a flexural strength of 6.60 N / mm ² and a splitting tensile strength of 4. ...