TY - CONF A1 - Tian, H. A1 - Voigt, Marieke A1 - Lehmann, C. A1 - Meng, Birgit A1 - Stephan, D. A2 - Middendorf, B. A2 - Fehling, E. T1 - Composition and microstructure stability of cement compound under cyclic hydrothermal condition T2 - Schriftenreihe Baustoffe und Massivbau: Ultra-High Performance Concrete and High Performance Materials N2 - There have been many researches focused on the performance improvement of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) by autoclaving treatment. The goal of autoclaving is to increase the pozzolanic reaction, and to densify the cement stone and the transition zone which originates from the incorporation of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), such as silica fume, fly ash and blast furnace slag. Due to the superior properties, UHPC can also be utilized under high mechanical load and aggressive condition, for example, the fabrication of water tanks for thermal storage which is of great significance for saving energy and reducing CO2 emission. It is known that mineral stability of the hydration products of an inorganic binder is highly related to the temperature and pressure of the environment. A certain stable composition at room temperature, however, may undergo a phase transformation at high temperature and the performance decrease under this severe condition will generally be more severe. In this way, the rationale behind this deterioration under long-term hydrothermal condition involving many cycles and long duration has to be clarified, and then appropriate optimizing methods will be performed in order to obtain a kind of construction with high durability under aggressive environment. For this purpose, different types and amounts of SCMs are introduced into the standard mixture of UHPC and the phase compositions after autoclaving at 200 °C and 15.5 bar are determined by combined X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscope. Mercury intrusion porosimeter is used to characterise the microstructure of the samples. In order to establish the relationship between microstructure and macroscopic properties, compressive and flexural strength are also investigated. PB - Kassel University Press CY - Kassel T2 - HiPerMat 2020 CY - Kassel, Germany DA - 11.03.2020 KW - Hydrothermal treatment KW - UHPC KW - Composition PY - 2020 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52375 AN - OPUS4-52375 SN - 978-3-7376-0828-2 VL - 23 SP - 87 EP - 88 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany