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Relationships Among Retardation, Expansion, Microstructure, and Phase Composition for a Salt-Saturated Expansive Grout

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Lillian D. Wakeley
Lillian D. Wakeley*
Affiliation:
Concrete Technology Division, Structures Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, P.O. Box 631, Vicksburg, MS 39180-0631
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Abstract

A salt-saturated and sulfate-expansive grout was formulated with four levels of sodium citrate to determine effects on workability and setting time. Linear expansion of restrained grout prisms increased with amount of citrate used, apparently a function of extent of retardation of the grouts. This relationship was observed both for grouts cured for at least 53 days, and for a concrete formulated from the same cementitious materials cured for at least 180 days age.

The microstructures of the grouts at 28 days age showed notable increases in extent of reaction of the sulfate phases and in formation of ettringite with increasing citrate content, and thus with increasing retardation of set. XRD also revealed an increase in well-crystallized ettringite and decrease in gypsum with greater retardation. These observations provide a microstructural and compositional link between retardation and expansion of cementitious materials formulated to be expansive.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 85: Symposium M – Microstructural Development During Hydration of Cement , 1986 , 283
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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