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BUILDING MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS

DOI10.25987/VSTU.2019.3.43.004

UDC691.327

S. I. Pimenov1

FEATURES OF THE STRUCTURE FORMATION OF A CEMENT STONE AFTER HYDRO-MECHANOCHEMICAL ACTIVATION OF CEMENT

Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering1

Russia, Kazan

1PhD in Engineering, Reader of the Dept. of Building Production, tel.: +7-843-510-47-31, e-mail: 3.14manon@mail.ru

Statement of the problem. Improving the quality of building materials at lower energy and resource costs remains an urgent issue. As warped rotors are developed, cement slurry is capable of activating inside them. Up until recently, the technology of concrete involving activation of cement and water slurry in warped rotors has failed to become common as there are scientific and technical issues yet to be tackled.

Results. The results of the influence of hydromechanochemical activation of a cement slurry on the physical and technical properties of heavy concrete are presented in the article. The dispersed composition of cement powder obtained after hydromechanochemical activation of the binder is presented. The index of the structure of heavy concrete structure, frost resistance, coefficient of sulfate resistance of the investigated concrete composition s has been identified. A high growth rate of the cement composition s is due to a high heat transfer of the cement stone at the beginning of the formation of the structure. The X-ray phase analysis showed that the phase composition of cement stone obtained after the mechanical and chemical activation of the binder is characterized by an increased amount of hydration growth.

Conclusions. The production of fast hardening cement concrete would reduce its holding time of the concrete in the formwork as well as reduce or eliminate heat treatment, which is relevant in terms of efficient use of energy and resources.

Keywords: hydromechanochemical activation, superplasticizer Relamix T-2, cement slurry, frost resistance.

Introduction. Portland cement capacities in improving chemical activity seem to be exhausted, but there is still some potential to de discovered in activating minerals that change hydratation processes [2, 5, 7, 11, 16, 17].

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The most common cement activation methods are turbulence [20, 25, 35], cavitation [1, 36], mechanochemical and hydromechanochemical [6, 16, 24, 26, 27, 30, 32, 33, 38], ultrasound [23, 31], vibration [3, 15], etc. All of the above activation methods are designed to improve the dispersion and specific surface of cement aggregate particles and hydrate growth. However, as the same dispersion of hydrate growth in different ground tools is reached, physical and technical properties of cement composition s might vary [40]. When Portland cement is ground using various tools, its components are significantly affected, i. e. the way a grid destroys as well as particle aggregation change. Energy consumption for dispersion of a binder using various tools for achieving the same effect is also different. The energy consumption for fine cement grounding in a water environment was proved to be lower than in a dry form on the condition that the same dispersion is achieved [10, 14]. Therefore it would be viable to make use of the equipment for dispersion of cement and water slurry that has a high energy consumption and intensity with a high power and hydrodynamic resistance particularly when effective modifying supplements are employed.

Cement hydromechanoactivation. A variety of technological methods of dispersion and activation of cement composition s is currently employed. After pulsed rotary equipment (PRE) had been designed, cement slurry could be activated there [7]. Up until recently the technology involving activation of a cement and water slurry in PRE has not become common due to a few scientific and technical issues yet to be resolved.

The authors in [12, 20] argue that mechanoactivation of cement and water slurry at the outset of hydration and hardening contribute to an increase in the volume of chemically active coagulation environment and its compaction, which leads to an increase in the strength of up to 30 %. In [37, 39] it is noted that due to the activation of cement slurry in PRE the strength of a cement and sand solution goes up by 70 %.

The dispersion of binders as they are processed in a planetary-type mill for 25 min was found to reach 650 m2/kg while in a ball grinder the same level of dispersion is achieved only for 120 min [28]. An increase in the specific surface of a binder causes an increase in the physical and technical properties of cement composition s but only as high as 500––600 m2/kg. An increase in the specific surface of cement particles causes a sharper decrease in its activation [16, 34]. In order to prevent cement activation as it is stored from decreasing, a binder should be activated in a water environment.

The strength of cement composition s is known to decrease as the amount of water of binder mixing increases, which is due to a growing porous structure of a cement stone [24, 30, 32].

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In order to prevent this, effective superplasticizers as well as binders have to be mechanically processed with no modifying supplements [4, 12, 20, 28, 37, 39].

Hydromechanochemical activation of a modified binder. Dispersion of a binder in a water environment can be intensified due to extra surfactants, i. e. superplasticizers.

Scientists discovered an intensifying effect of surfactants on cement grinding. Introduction of a few supplements into fine grinding contributes to more effective grinding as well as improved physical and mechanical properties of resulting cement composition s.

A list of available superplasticizers is constantly growing and it is becoming increasingly difficult to choose an effective surfactant for the dispersion of a binder in various tools.

There is no data available in the literature on the effect of hydromechanical chemical activation of a cement slurry in PRE on the kinetics of heat emission of a cement paste, as well as of granulometric composition of a cement powder following activation, the structure of heavy cement on hydromechanochemically activated cement.

In the previous study [8] it was found that for manufacturing assembled ferroconcrete products preliminary hydromechanochemical activation of a cement slurry allows energy consumption to decrease and the cost of 1 cubic meter of a ready product to be reduced down to 24 % if it is not used whatsoever. Therefore the objective of the research is to analyze the results of the effect of hydromechanochemical activation of a cement slurry on the kinetics of hardening and physical and technical properties of heavy cement, cement hydration by means of the X-ray phase analysis method.

1. Materials and equipment. For manufacturing a concrete mix the following original materials were used:

––Portland slag cement ЦЕМ II/A-Ш 32.5H by the Yulianovsk Plant in compliance with the GOST (ГОСТ) 31108-2016 requirements. It contains the following main minerals: C3S – 54 %, C2S – 20 %, C3A – 11 %, C4AF – 12 %, 9.2 % of a mineral supplement of granulated burnt furnace slag, 2.8 % of SO3 impurity. The choice of a medium-scale Portland cement was due to its high efficiency during mechanochemical activation in a water environment and the use of a granulated burnt furnace slag as a mineral supplement saved some amount of an aggregate and provided environmental sustainability as well as its positive impact on the structure formation of a cement stone following activation and interaction with calcium hydroxide resulting in predominantly strong low-base calcium hydrosilicates;

––sand of the Kamsko-Ustiynskiy deposit with the fineness modulus of 2.7 was used as a fine filler and was in compliance with the GOST (ГОСТ) 8736-2014;

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––loam of the Ural deposit with the fraction sized 5––20 mm was used as a fine filler and was in compliance with the GOST (ГОСТ) 8267-93;

––naphthalene formaldehyde superplasticizer was used as a superplasticizer supplement Relamix T-2 manufactured by ТУ 5870-002-14153664-04 in the amount of 1 % of the cement mass. The use of superplasticizer supplements for enhancing previous strength and physical and mechanical properties of heavy concrete is beyond any doubt as it provides a considerable (up to 30––40 %) reduction in the water consumption necessary for producing high strength cement.

Heavy concrete В25 was prepared and tested with the ratio of the components in the following proportions: cement : sand : loam = 490 : 555 : 1315.

The cement-water ratio (W/C) of the investigated compositions was chosen on the condition that the same mobility of the П2 brand is achieved (the cone heaving was 6––8 cm according to the GOST (ГОСТ) 10181-2014). This mobility of the concrete mix was chosen in compliance with the requirements for manufacturing different concrete and ferroconcrete products (slabs, beams, columns, straps, etc.) according to the Construction Guidelines and Regulations (СНиП) 3.09.01-85 “Manufacturing Assembly Ferroconcrete Structures and Products”.

The cement was subjected to hydromechanochemical activation in pulsed rotary equipment manufactured by Ltd. Promservice according to the Technical Specifications (ТУ) 5132-001- 70447062.

The specific surface was determined by means of the air permeability method on a tool for measuring the specific surface area (ПСХ-9). The dispersion composition was identified using a laser diffraction particle size analyzer Horiba La-950V2.

The X-ray phase analysis was conducted on using the diffractometer D2 Phaser (Bruker, Germany) for measuring powder diffraction in Bragg-Brentano geometry using a monochro-

matic CuK -radiation (λ = 1.54178 Ǻ) in the continuous scanning mode.

The measurement and reading modes were the following: the strain of the X-ray tube was 30 kW, the current was 30 mА, scanning step and rate was 0.02° and 1 degrees/min respectively. A range of scanning angles in Bragg-Brentano geometry was 3––60°.

2. Меthods. Cement and aggregate materials that are active in water environment and obtained following PRE treatment were dehydrated using a Buchner funnel that was joined to a water flow pipe. Once the liquid phase was separated, a sample on the filter was poured with pure alcohol and preserved in acetone. The amount of acetone was one-fifth of the sample. After that the sample was dried in a drying chamber at the temperature 105 °С.

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