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CEMENT AND CONCRETE MATERIALS
materials fundamentals + mix design
Christopher Hall
2009
S131
[email protected]
CEMENT
Materials fundamentals
•Sources of information
•Cement manufacture + composition
•Cement hydration
•Microstructure
•Concrete mixes
•Properties: strength
permeability
durability
Information/texts
•Jackson & Dhir: Civil Engineering Materials,
5th edn, 1997
•Mindess, Young & Darwin: Concrete, 2002
•Neville & Brooks: Concrete Technology, 1987
•Neville: Properties of Concrete, 4th edn, 1995
•Bensted & Barnes: Structure and Performance of
Cements, 2nd edn, 2001
Information/journals
•Cement and Concrete Research
•Magazine of Concrete Research
•American Concrete Institute Journal
ACI Journal
•Materials and Structures [RILEM]
Information/websites
Virtual Cement & Concrete Testing Laboratory
includes Electronic monograph from Bentz at NIST:
http://ciks.cbt.nist.gov/vcctl/
See also microstructure images library from Lange at UIUC:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/dlange/www/CML
Cement Manufacture
Raw materials
limestone + clay
on firing, produces a complex mixture
of synthetic minerals, principally
calcium silicates and calcium
aluminates
Manufacture
CEMENT
World production 2001 1.6 billion tons
CEMENT
World production 2001 1.6 billion tons
Steel production 900 million tons
CEMENT
World production 2001 1.6 billion tonnes
2--5 % total CO2 emission
Energy intensive manufacture
Various figures
are quoted.
The energy cost
of manufacture
is around 3500
kJ/kg cement
CEMENT
World production 2001 1.6 billion tonnes
EU production 2002 194 million tonnes
For each tonne cement produced
0.800 tonne CO2 is also produced
0.525 tonne from decalcination
of limestone
0.335 tonne from combustion
of fuel in the kiln
0.050 tonne from electricity
production
CEMENT
In EU, cement industry produces
3 per cent of total anthropogenic CO2
Source: Cembureau
CEMENT COMPOSITIONS
SiO2
OPC zone
CaO
Al2O3  Fe2O3
CEMENT
COMPOSITION
Notation
CaO
Al2O3
Fe2O3
SiO2
CEMENT
COMPOSITION
Notation
CaO
Al2O3
Fe2O3
SiO2
C
A
F
S
CEMENT
COMPOSITION
Notation
CaO
Al2O3
Fe2O3
SiO2
C
A
F
S
Table 2–2. Mineralogical Composition of Classic Cement Clinker
Oxide Composition
Cement Notatiion
Common Name
Concentration (wt%)
3CaO • SiO2
C 3S
alite
55–65
2CaO • SiO2
C 2S
belite
15–25
3CaO • Al2O 3
C 3A
aluminate
8–14
4CaO • Al2O3 • Fe2O3
C4AF
brownmillerite
8–12
Clinker microstructure
150 micron
C3S
C2S
C3A
C4AF
C3S
C2S
Clinker microstructure
150 micron
C3S
C2S
C3A
C4AF
C3S
C2S
Clinker microstructure
150 micron
C3S
C2S
C3A
C4AF
C3S
C2S
Clinker microstructure
C3S
C2S
C2A
C4AF
C3 A
C4AF
C3A
C4AF
Clinker microstructure
C3S, C2S, C3A, C4AF
200 micron
Cement grinding
Gypsum additions (strictly sulphate)
Particle size distribution
Images from Lange
UIUC
http://cee.ce.uiuc.edu/lange/micro
Cement hydration 1
Heat evolution
Induction period
Cement hydration 2
Chemical reaction with water
All minerals involved
115 micron
Cement hydration 2
Principal reaction which develops
strength
C3S + water ---> C-S-H
Cement hydration 3
Chemical reaction with water
All minerals involved
Formation of lime
(calcium hydroxide)
pH of pore water
Cement hydration 4
Water requirement
about 30% by wt cement for complete
reaction
Cement hydration 5
Four stages of hydration in a
microstructural model of C3S
hydration. The degrees
of hydration are:
top left--0%
top right--20%,
bottom left--50%
bottom right--87%
Red=unreacted cement
blue=CH
yellow=C-S-H
black= porosity
from Bentz, NIST
Computational materials science
Cellular automaton model of cement and concrete
D Bentz and E Garboczi NIST
Cement hydration 6
Synchrotron X-ray view
Summary of setting and hardening
Workability
Development of continuous network
of hydrate material
Strength development
Porosity and permeability
Timescale
Strength and strength development
Cement Based Materials
Mortars
Concrete
Manufactured cement based materials
Autoclaved aerated concrete
Transport properties
Permeability
Sorptivity
see Hall & Hoff: Water Transport in
Brick, Stone and Concrete 2002
PERMEABILITY property
Darcy’s law:
u = Q/A = -  kp /L
k permeability
Q volume rate of flow
B
A
Types of cements
Portland cement
Blended or composite cements
Portland + other mineral
components
BS EN 197-1
Cement
Other mineral components are
Minerals which react with lime
Pozzolans
Blastfurnace slag
Fly ash
Natural pozzolans
Inert fillers
Crushed limestone
BS EN 197-1
Cement