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High-strength concrete based on ternary binder with high pozzolan content

VEJMELKOVÁ ,E., KOŇÁKOVÁ, D., ČÁCHOVÁ, M., ZÁLESKÁ, M., SVORA, P., KEPPERT, M., ROVNANÍKOVÁ, P., ČERNÝ, R.

Original Title

High-strength concrete based on ternary binder with high pozzolan content

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Several high-strength concrete mixes containing ternary binders composed of Portland cement, silica fume, and waste brick powder are designed. Taking into account the functional properties of hardened mixes, together with their supposed environmental qualities and economic benefits, the practical limits of pozzolan content in the binder are analyzed. Based on a wide set of material characterization experiments including mercury intrusion porosimetry, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction analysis, complemented with a series of measurements of basic physical properties, mechanical parameters, and water and water vapor transport properties, the binder consisting of 57% Portland cement, 18.5% silica fume, and 24.5% brick powder is identified as the optimum in the studied system. The excellent functional properties of the mix with such a high pozzolan content are achieved due to the synergetic effects of the combination of silica fume and waste brick powder on concrete properties. The fineness of brick particles, together with the dual character of the applied brick powder acting as active pozzolan and microfiller at the same time, is found to magnify the ability of silica fume to fill the intergranular space through the improvement of the granulometry curve.

Keywords

concrete, cement, silica fume, brick powder, transport processes, mechanical properties

Authors

VEJMELKOVÁ ,E., KOŇÁKOVÁ, D., ČÁCHOVÁ, M., ZÁLESKÁ, M., SVORA, P., KEPPERT, M., ROVNANÍKOVÁ, P., ČERNÝ, R.

Released

1. 3. 2018

Publisher

Wiley

Location

Oxford, UK

ISBN

1751-7648

Periodical

Structural Concrete

Number

1

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

1

Pages to

18

Pages count

18

BibTex

@article{BUT146302,
  author="Eva {Vejmelková} and Dana {Koňáková} and Monika {Čáchová} and Martina {Záleská} and Petr {Svora} and Martin {Keppert} and Pavla {Rovnaníková} and Robert {Černý}",
  title="High-strength concrete based on ternary binder with high pozzolan content",
  journal="Structural Concrete",
  year="2018",
  number="1",
  pages="1--18",
  doi="10.1002/suco.201700173",
  issn="1751-7648"
}