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Session 3admixtures
Session 3admixtures
Session 3admixtures
during mixing.
Why Are They Used?
• To modify properties of fresh & hardened
concrete.
• To ensure the quality of concrete during
mixing, transporting, placing & curing.
• To overcome certain unexpected emergencies
during concrete operations (ie, set retarders).
• One must remember that addition of excess
water, will only improve the fluidity or the
consistency but not the workability of
concrete.
Effectiveness
Setting Accelerators
‡Retarders
8. Shrinkage reducers
9. Alkali-silica reactivity inhibitors
10. Colouring admixtures
11. Miscellaneous admixtures such workability,
bonding, damp proofing, permeability reducing,
grouting, gas-forming, and pumping admixtures
Accelerating Admixtures
• Purpose
• Permit early removal of formwork.
• reduce time required for curing.
• reduce the time required to structure be in use.
• In emergency repair work.
Accelerating Admixtures
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Plasticizers – Mechanism of action
Addition
of water
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Plasticizers
Dispersant
molecules
Reaction
Cement
particles
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Plasticizers
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Action of Plasticizers
• Dispersion (Portland cement, being in fine state of division, will have a tendency
to
• flocculate in wet concrete. These flocculation entraps certain amount of water used in
the mix
• and thereby all the water is not freely available to fluidity the mix
Retarding Effect
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Plasticizers – Dispersion Mechanism
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Plasticizers – Retarding Effect
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Plasticizers – Effectiveness
Effectiveness is measured in %age of water reduction for a dosage.
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Super plasticizers (High-Range Water Reducers)