Classification Of Cement

-Tushar A. Wamanse
MSc-I, SEM-II Roll No 22
 What is cement ?
• A cement is a binder, a substance that sets
and hardens independently, and can bind
other materials together.
 CLASSIFICATION OF CEMENT

• Natural Cement
• Pozzolana Cement
• Slag Cement
• Portland Cement
 Natural cement
• it is also known as Roman cement.
• it is developed by James Parker in the 1780 .
 
 Pozzolana Cement
• pozzolanic materials like fly ash, volcanic ash,
pumicite etc.
• A Pozzolan is any material which in the
presence of lime and water will react
hydraulically to form a cemented mass
Contains pozzolanic materials of 10-95% by
weight.
 Slag Cement
• Mixture of blast furnace slag (Ca and Al
Silicates) and hydrated lime.
• Chemical Constituent GGBS
CaO 40%
SiO2 35%
AI2O3 10%
MgO 8%
 Portland cement
• a product obtained by intimately mixing
together calcareous and argillaceous, or other
silica, alumina, and iron oxide-bearing
materials, burning them at a clinkering
temperature and grinding the resulting clinker.
• In 1824 Joseph Aspdin
• product resembled the colour of the stones
from Portland, England.
COMPOSITION OF PORTLAND CEMENT

• Lime                                                   CaO                            60-67%
• Silica                                                   SiO2                            17-25%
• Alumina                                            Al2O3                                    03-08%
• Iron Oxide                                         Fe2O3                          0.5-06%
• Magnesia                                           MgO                           0.1-04%
• Soda & Potash                                  Na2O & K2O              0.2-01%
• Sulfur Trioxide                                 SO3                                        01-2.75%
• Free Lime                                          CaO                            00-01%
• Gypsum 01 to 04%
Main Compounds of Portland Cement
 TYPES OF CEMENT

• Sulphate Resisting Cement

• Rapid Hardening Cement (or) High Early Strength
cement
• Quick Setting Cement
• Low Heat Cement
• High Alumina Cement
• Air Entraining Cement
• White Cement
 SULPHATE RESISTING CEMENT
• It is modified form of O.P.C
• contains a low percentage of C3A (not more
than 05%.)
• It develops strength slowly, but ultimately it is
as strong as O.P.C.
 RAPID HARDENING CEMENT
• This cement is used in highway slabs which are
to be opened for traffic quickly.
• This cement contains more percentage of C3S
and less percentage of C2S.
• manufactured by adding calcium chloride
(CaCl2) to the O.P.C (not more than 02%.)
 QUICK SETTING CEMENT
• When concrete is to be laid under water, quick
setting cement is to used.
• manufactured by adding small percentage of
aluminum sulphate (Al2SO4)
• it becomes stone hard in less than half an
hour.
 LOW HEAT CEMENT
• In this cement the heat of hydration is
reduced by tricalcium aluminate (C3A )
content.
• less percentage of lime than OPC
• 0.1 to 15 %wt. of an added material selected
from the group consisting of OPC such as
gypsum, sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate,
potassium hydroxide, and mixtures.
 HIGH ALUMINA CEMENT
• This cement contains high aluminate
percentage usually between 35-55%. It gains
strength very rapidly with in 24 hours.
• used for construction of dams and other
heavy structures.
 AIR ENTRAINING CEMENT
• It produce to resistance to weathering actions
and particularly to the action of frost.
• entrainment of air or gas bubbles while
applying cement
• produced by grinding minute air entraining
materials with clinker
• Natural resins, fats, oils are used as air
entraining agents.
 WHITE CEMENT
• it is also called as ‘snowcrete’.
• iron oxide gives the grey colour
• Lime stone and china clay
• Fe2O3, Mn2O3,Cr2O3,MgO
• This cement is costlier than O.P.C.
• It is mainly used for architectural finishing in
the buildings.
 REFERENCES
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement
• http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/constr
uction-engineering/9780273786337/chapter-
1dot-portland-cement
• http://petrowiki.spe.org/Cement_composition
_and_classification#Classification_of_cement
• http://www.incetr.com/cement_src_specs.ht
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