Determining the water–cement ratio, cement content, water content and degree of hydration of hardened cement paste: Method development and validation on paste samples

Determining the water - cement ratio , cement content , water content and degree 1 of hydration of hardened cement paste : Method development and validation on 2 paste samples

7 We propose a new method to estimate the initial cement content, water content and free water/cement ratio (w/c) 8 of hardened cement-based materials made with Portland cements that have unknown mixture proportions and 9 degree of hydration. This method first quantifies the composition of the hardened cement paste, i.e. the 10 volumetric fractions of capillary pores, hydration products and unr...

Influence of hardened cement paste content on the water absorption of fine recycled concrete aggregates

Influence of hardened cement paste content on the water absorption of fine recycled concrete aggregates Zengfeng Zhao a b , Sébastien Remond a b , Denis Damidot a b & Weiya Xu c a Université Lille Nord de France , Lille , France b Civil and Environmental Engineering Department , Mines Douai, LGCgE GCE , Douai , France c Geotechnical Research Institute , Hohai University , Nanjing , China Publis...

Structure and Physical Properties of Hardened Portland Cement Paste

Modeling of Hydration Kinetics and Shrinkage of Portland Cement Paste

MODELING OF HYDRATION KINETICS AND SHRINKAGE OF PORTLAND CEMENT PASTE

Decalcification shrinkage of cement paste

Decalcification of cement paste in concrete is associated with several modes of chemical degradation including leaching, carbonation and sulfate attack. The primary aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of decalcification under saturated conditions on the dimensional stability of cement paste. Thin (0.8 mm) specimens of tricalcium silicate (C3S) paste, white portland cement (W...