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Fundamental control of concrete rheology by optimising mixing energy and superplasticizer design

Code
3G017616
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Building engineering
    • Construction engineering
    • Earthquake engineering
    • Geotechnical and environmental engineering
    • Water engineering
    • Wind engineering
Keywords
cement rheology plasticizer mixing concrete
 
Project description
 

The research project considers to link the cement agglomeration mechanism with the superplasticizer effectivity in cementitious materials. Rather than describing the phenomenological impact, this research aims at obtaining physico-chemical relations between the adsorption/repulsion functionality of the superplasticizer and the shear energy applied to the concrete mixture.