Materials (Sep 2024)

Shrinkage and Creep Properties of Low-Carbon Hybrid Cement

  • Vít Šmilauer,
  • Lenka Dohnalová,
  • Pavel Martauz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17174417
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 17
p. 4417

Abstract

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Hybrid cements combine clinker with large amount of supplementary cementitious materials while utilizing hydration and alkali activation processes. This paper summarizes shrinkage and creep properties of industrially produced H-cement, containing only 20% of Portland clinker. In comparison with a reference cement CEM II/B-S 32.5 R, autogenous shrinkage is smaller after 7 days, and drying shrinkage is similar at similar times. A different capillary system of H-cement leads to faster water mass loss during drying. Basic and total creep of concrete remains in the standard deviation of B4 and EC2 creep models. The results demonstrate that shrinkage and creep properties of concrete made from H-cement have similar behavior as conventional structural concrete or high-volume fly ash concrete.

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