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Reprinted from:
Cement and Concrete Research
Val. 9, No. 6 , November 1979
p. 677 - 684
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V S Ramachandran
D i v i s i o n of B u i l d i n g Research
N a t i o n a l Research c o u n c i l of Canada AN A L ~ Z E ~
Ottawa, Canada
(Communicated by P. J. Sereda)
(Received J u l y 30, 1979)
AB STRAC T
Introduction
Experimental
Materials
CaO, 73.88; S O 2 , 26.17; A1203, 0.08; f r e e CaO (ASTM), 0.18; f r e e CaO (Franke),
0.46. Mineralogical a n a l y s i s : C3S, 99.33; C2S, 0.00; C3A, 0.21; CaO (Franke),
0.46. Fineness : B l a i n e 3310 cm2/g.
Hydration
t i g h t l y covered p o l y e t h y l e n e c o n t a i n e r s r o t a t e d c o n t i n u o u s l y over r o l l e r s .
A t s p e c i f i c i n t e r v a l s of time each sample was d r i e d a t 110°C i n vacuum f o r
3 h.
E x t r a c t ion of Ca (OH) 2
Analysis
5 1 1 I I I I d The s o l v e n t v a r i a t i o n method
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(SVM) was used t o e s t i m a t e Ca(OHl2
4 -
- i n some samples ( 1 ) . I t consisted
= - of e x t r a c t i o n w i t h a mixture of
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+. e t h y l a c e t o a c e t a t e and i s o b u t y l
25 3 a l c o h o l i n a 3 t o 20 r a t i o byvolume.
;= The r a t i o o f t h e s o l v e n t volume t o
£ 2 - sample weight was v a r i e d from 1000
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t o 3000 mL p e r gm and t h e time of
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- each e x t r a c t i o n was maintained a t
30 min. A p l o t of t h e volume of
s o l v e n t a g a i n s t Ca(OH)2 e x t r a c t e d
a I 1 I t t 1 gave a s t r a i g h t l i n e whose i n t e r c e p t
5 LO 15 20 25 30 35
r e p r e s e n t e d t h e f r e e Ca(OH)2 con-
CaIOH12. %
t a i n e d i n t h e sample.
Fig. 1 C a l i b r a t i o n curve f o r
e s t i m a t i o n of Ca(0H) 2 by R e s u l t s and Discussion
d i f f e r e n t i a l thermal technique
Figure 1 r e p r e s e n t s t h e c a l i b r a -
25 I I I I I I t i o n curve of t h e endothermal peak
a r e a s due t o Ca(0H) 2 decomposition
CHEMICAL METHOD- _,
__ __----- i n Ca(OH)2-C3S mixtures c o n t a i n i n g
a THERMAL METHOD '
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pa-- d i f f e r e n t amounts o f Ca(OH)2. A
good l i n e a r r e l a t i o n f o r samples
4
l5 c o n t a i n i n g up t o about 33 p e r c e n t
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l? Ca(OH)2 a t t e s t s t o t h e a p p l i c a b i l i t y
-
0
: lo of t h e d i f f e r e n t i a l thermal t e c h -
nique f o r t h e e s t i m a t i o n of Ca(OH)2.
A t a high s e n s i t i v i t y an amount a s
5 - low a s 0 . 1 p e r c e n t Ca(OH)2 can be
estimated.
Oo Ib A o:
TIME, days
4IO O: 6b 10 The r e l a t i v e amounts o f Ca(0H) 2
formed a t d i f f e r e n t p e r i o d s during
Fig. 2 Amounts o f Ca(0H) 2 formed t h e h y d r a t i o n o f C3S were estimated
i n t h e hydration of C3S by both d i f f e r e n t i a l thermal and
chemical methods of a n a l y s i s and
t h e r e s u l t s a r e compared i n Figure
2. Both show t h a t t h e r a t e o f
formation of Ca(OH)2 i s r e l a t i v e l y
40 high i n t h e f i r s t 7 days, a f t e r
which it becomes more g r a d u a l .
IDEAL LINE
Although t h e general t r e n d s a r e
s i m i l a r , t h e v a l u e s r e s u l t i n g from
t h e use of chemical a n a l y s i s a r e
h i g h e r t h a n those from t h e thermal
method. The d i f f e r e n c e becomes
l a r g e r a s hydration p r o g r e s s e s .
This, however, can be expected
s i n c e t h e chemical method i n v o l v e s
,b 2b O: ao 50 a t t a c k o f t h e C-S-H phase by t h e
Ca10H12. % B Y C H E M I C A L M E T H O D s o l v e n t . Figure 3 g i v e s t h e
r e l a t i o n between Ca(0H) 2 v a l u e s
Fig. 3 Comparison of chemical and e s t i m a t e d by t h e d i f f e r e n t i a l
thermal methods o f e s t i m a t i n g thermal method and t h e chemical
Ca(OH) 2 method; t h e p o i n t a t about 40 p e r
VoF. 9, No. 6 681
DTA, Ca(OH)2, CEMENT PASTES, UNDERESTIMATION
c e n t Ca(OH)2 r e p r e s e n t s a v a l u e f o r an almost
completely hydrated C3S. Although a l l t h e
points l i e close to t h e ideal l i n e , there i s
unmistakable evidence t h a t chemical a n a l y s i s
y i e l d s s l i g h t l y higher v a l u e s .
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cement sample by t h e t e c h n i q u e
d e s c r i b e d above. The r e s u l t s _.-.-
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a r e shown i n Figure 6. A f u l l y a
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hydrated p o r t l a n d cement c o n t a i n s
l e s s f r e e Ca(OH)2 t h a n a f u l l y
hydrated C3S p a s t e . I t t a k e s
-IT% CaC12
somewhat l o n g e r , however, t o
e x t r a c t a l l t h e f r e e Ca(0H) 2 .......
from p o r t l a n d cement p a s t e . I t
has a h i g h e r p o r o s i t y and lower
microhardness than does C3S 0 6 1 2 2 4 48 72 0 1 3 7
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p a s t e b e f o r e e x t r a c t i o n , and
TIME, h TIME, d
t h e s e f a c t o r s would b e expected
t o f a c i l i t a t e r a t h e r than F i g . 8 I n f l u e n c e of calcium c h l o r i d e on
r e t a r d t h e e x t r a c t i o n of Ca(OH)2 t h e formation o f calcium hydroxide
from t h e cement p a s t e . I t i s d u r i n g t h e h y d r a t i o n of p o r t l a n d
p o s s i b l e t h a t i n cement p a s t e s cement (w/c = 0.4)
c o n t a i n i n g aluminate and
f e r r i t e phases ( i n a d d i t i o n t o
s i l i c a t e phases) t h e hydrated lime i s enveloped by h y d r a t i o n p r o d u c t s much
more e f f i c i e n t l y t h a n it i s i n C3S p a s t e s ; t h u s t h e p e r m e a b i l i t y o f t h e s o l i d
t o t h e e x t r a c t i n g s o l u t i o n would b e reduced.
Conclusions
Acknow ledeements
References