Author 1:

First name: Guillermo

Last name: Hernndez-Carrillo
Email: guihcarrillo@outlook.com
Country: Mexico
Organization: Facultad de Ingeniera Civil, Universidad
Autonoma de Nuevo Len
Corresponding author: *
Author 2:
First name: Alejandro
Last name: Durn-Herrera
Email: alejandro.duranhr@gmail.com
Country: Mexico
Organization: Facultad de Ingeniera Civil, Universidad
Autonoma de Nuevo Len
Author 3:
First name: Pedro L.
Last name: Valdez-Tamez
Email: pedro.valdeztz@uanl.edu.mx
Country: Mexico
Organization: Facultad de Ingeniera Civil, Universidad
Autonoma de Nuevo Len
Presentation title: Ultra High Performance Concrete
(UHPC) with Low Silica Fume Contents and limestone
aggregates
Abstract:
UHPC its the newest iteration of high Performance
Concrete, it is characterized with a high compressive
strength, a very high durability and high cost.
The typical formulations commonly use costly aggregates
such as fine quartz sand and powder, bauxite, basalt,
among others, and typically requires very high dosages of
silica fume additions (25% in addition to weight of
cement(woc)).

In this work UHPC mixes with regular limestone sand with

a 4.75 maximum size, replacing the common quartz
aggregates (both fine sand and powder) were made.
Those mixes contained additions of silica fume between 0
and 25% by woc. At a paste level, termogravimetric
analysis

on

silica

fume-portland/cement

and

silica

fume/calcium hydroxide systems were performed to

evaluate the potential pozzolanic reaction and as another
path to determine the silica fume addition to maximize
calcium hydroxide consumption. From our experimental
work, an UHPC with limestone aggregates was obtained
with significant lower dosages of silica fume (8%) for
target minimum compressive strength of 150 MPa.