Comparative study of the influence of inorganic additions on the physical-chemical properties and mechanical performance of mortar and/or concrete
Mohammed Hussien KHUDHAIR, Mohamed Salahdine ELYOUBI, Ahmed Elharfi
Abstract
In this work, we studied the comparative between the effect of inorganic additions such as the P.Lime and the PN on the physical-chemical properties of cement and the mechanical performances of mortar and/or concrete, while partially substituting the clinker by these materials, at various percentages ranging from 5% to 40% of each add by weight of cement with an interval of 5%.
The obtained results by the different formulations elaborated show that the substitution a part of clinker by PN and/or P.Lime produced a new durable hydraulic binder with the physical-chemical and mechanical properties improved, namely the increases in the fineness by specific surface, the density is decreased, the setting time decreased as a function of the increase in the percentage of P.Lime and increased with the increases in the percentage of PN, the report of water/cement decreased as a function of the mass fraction of PN and increased with the percentage of P.Lime. The compressive strength at a young age (2days), median age (7days) and long term (28days) improve with the percentage of P.Lime and/or PN was increased.