Cement Chemistry and Physics for Civil Engineers PDF

Contents

Preface

I. CONSTITUENTS

• Lime
• Silica
• Alumina
• Ferric Oxide

II. HYDRAULIC LIMES

• Pozzolanic limes
• Burnt hydraulic limes

III. PORTLAND CEMENT

• Definition and manufacture
• Chemical composition and evaluation
• Hydration
• CHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF HYDRATION PRODUCTS
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HYDRATION PRODUCTS
• The setting process of cement
• The hardening process and the factors affecting it
• POROSITY
• CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
• FINENESS
• HUMIDITY
• TEMPERATURE
• Mechanical strength tests
• Volume changes
• BLEEDING
• CONTRACTION
• SHRINKAGE AND SWELLING
• Heat of hydration
• Water permeability
• Resistance to the action of chemical aggressive agents
• DISSOLUTION PROCESSES
• CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION
• CORROSIVE AGENTS IN CONCRETE CONSTITUENTS
• PROTECTION OF CONCRETE AGAINST CORROSION
• Frost resistance

IV. SLAG CEMENTS

• Blast furnace slag
• Blast furnace slag cements
• Supersulphated cements

V. POZZOLANIC CEMENTS

VI. ALUMINOUS CEMENTS

VII. CONCRETE ADDITIVES

VIII. SPECIAL CEMENTS

INDEX