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Unravelling chloride transport/microstructure relationships for blended-cement pastes with the mini-migration method
Abstract A chloride mini-migration method is proposed to estimate effective diffusion coefficients at the scale of the cement paste and to investigate mechanisms with complementary microstructure analyses on the same material. Blended-cement pastes with a wide range of properties were investigated in this study: systems at w/b = 0.3–0.5 including Portland cement, white Portland cement, slag-Portland cement, fly ash, glass powder, and/or limestone and calcined clay. Comparisons showed the relative and combined importance of three main parameters on the effective diffusion coefficient: the porosity, the pore connectivity parameter and the conductivity of the pore solution (low values of the latter two are generally key aspects of the high resistance of blended-cement systems against chloride ingress). Notably, a general correlation for all the investigated systems was established between the effective diffusion coefficient and the bulk conductivity (whereas no simple correlation was observed between the effective diffusion coefficient and the formation factor or the pore connectivity parameter).
Unravelling chloride transport/microstructure relationships for blended-cement pastes with the mini-migration method
Abstract A chloride mini-migration method is proposed to estimate effective diffusion coefficients at the scale of the cement paste and to investigate mechanisms with complementary microstructure analyses on the same material. Blended-cement pastes with a wide range of properties were investigated in this study: systems at w/b = 0.3–0.5 including Portland cement, white Portland cement, slag-Portland cement, fly ash, glass powder, and/or limestone and calcined clay. Comparisons showed the relative and combined importance of three main parameters on the effective diffusion coefficient: the porosity, the pore connectivity parameter and the conductivity of the pore solution (low values of the latter two are generally key aspects of the high resistance of blended-cement systems against chloride ingress). Notably, a general correlation for all the investigated systems was established between the effective diffusion coefficient and the bulk conductivity (whereas no simple correlation was observed between the effective diffusion coefficient and the formation factor or the pore connectivity parameter).
Unravelling chloride transport/microstructure relationships for blended-cement pastes with the mini-migration method
Wilson, William (author) / Georget, Fabien (author) / Scrivener, Karen (author)
2020-10-09
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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