An integration of tricalcium silicate hydration models in light of recent data

✍ Scribed by Michael W. Grutzeck; A.R. Ramachandran

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 422 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-8846
• DOI: 10.1016/0008-8846(87)90071-8

✦ Synopsis

Although the chemistry of cement has been under study for over 100 years, its mechanism of hydration is not yet fully understood.

Various authors (i-3) have recently tried to come to grips with this basic problem, each summarizing the available data on the hydration of portland cement/tricalcium silicate.* However, after reviewing these articles, one is left with the impression that, although a limited number of models exist, many questions remain unanswered. Most are related to: the nature of the very early hydration products which form when tricalcium silicate is mixed with water, and the role that these early hydrates play in governing the observed induction period.