TY - JOUR
T1 - Ettringite and calcium sulfoaluminate cement
T2 - Investigation of water content by near-infrared spectroscopy
AU - Gastaldi, Daniela
AU - Canonico, Fulvio
AU - Boccaleri, Enrico
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge Prof. Gian Lorenzo Valenti and Dr. Antonio Telesca, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, for supplying synthetic ettringite; Dr. Aldo Arrais, Uni-versità del Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, for support with Infra-Red analyses; Ing. Massimo Paris, Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. (Guidonia, Italy) and Ing. Luigi Buzzi, Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. (Casale Monferrato, Italy) for their critical reading; Michael Ellard B.Sc. for English revision. This study was funded by Regione Piemonte (CIPE project ‘‘NEWCEM—Novel functional cement-based materials based on nano-scale control of structure and activity’’) and by Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria (‘‘CHEM-CEM project: integrated optimization of cementing materials and complex production processes through innovative chemical methods, multivariate statistical techniques and neural networks’’).
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - Calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA) cement is a sulfate-based binder whose high-performance hydraulic behavior depends on the rapid formation of ettringite, when grinded clinker is hydrated in presence of gypsum. Ettringite is a calcium aluminum sulfate mineral characterized by high water content, estimated as 32 water molecules per formula unit. Three examples of utilization of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy are here shown. First of all, information on water distribution in pure ettringite was deduced and compared with infrared analyses. Then its thermal behavior has been followed up to 400 °C, allowing to improve the knowledge about water loss and thermal decomposition of this hydrated phase. Finally, the obtained results have been employed in order to follow hydration of CSA cement sample, demonstrating thus that NIR spectroscopy, being highly sensitive to water amount and distribution, can be an extremely useful tool for hydration studies.
AB - Calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA) cement is a sulfate-based binder whose high-performance hydraulic behavior depends on the rapid formation of ettringite, when grinded clinker is hydrated in presence of gypsum. Ettringite is a calcium aluminum sulfate mineral characterized by high water content, estimated as 32 water molecules per formula unit. Three examples of utilization of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy are here shown. First of all, information on water distribution in pure ettringite was deduced and compared with infrared analyses. Then its thermal behavior has been followed up to 400 °C, allowing to improve the knowledge about water loss and thermal decomposition of this hydrated phase. Finally, the obtained results have been employed in order to follow hydration of CSA cement sample, demonstrating thus that NIR spectroscopy, being highly sensitive to water amount and distribution, can be an extremely useful tool for hydration studies.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10853-009-3812-1
DO - 10.1007/s10853-009-3812-1
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-2461
VL - 44
SP - 5788
EP - 5794
JO - Journal of Materials Science
JF - Journal of Materials Science
IS - 21
ER -