Evaluation of super-water reducers for highway applications
Abstract
Super-water reducers were characterized and evaluated as potential candidates for production of low water to cement ratio, high strength concretes for highway construction applications. Admixtures were composed of either naphthalene or melamine sulfonated formaldehyde condensates. A mini-slump procedure was used to assess dosage requirements and behavior of workability with time of cement pastes. Required dosage was found to be a function of tricalcium aluminate content, alkali content, and fineness of the cement. Concretes exhibited high rates of slump loss when super-water reducers were used. The most promising area of application of these products appears to be in production of dense, high cement content concrete using mobile concrete mixer/transporters.
- Publication:
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Final Report Portland Cement Association
- Pub Date:
- March 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981pca..reptQ....W
- Keywords:
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- Additives;
- Concretes;
- Highways;
- Moisture Content;
- Air;
- Entrainment;
- Formaldehyde;
- Melamine;
- Naphthalene;
- Slumping;
- Sulfonates;
- Engineering (General)