TY - CONF A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Mota Gassó, Berta A1 - Sturm, Heinz A1 - Pauli, Jutta ED - Greim, M. ED - Kusterle, W. ED - Teubert, O. T1 - Influence of effects on nano and micro scale on the rheological performance of cement paste, mortar and concrete N2 - Chemical admixtures like superplasticisers or stabilising agents are of ever increasing importance for modern concrete technology. They liberate the workability of concrete from its dependency on water content, and thus, open the gate towards innovative and future oriented concrete technologies such as self-compacting concrete. Today, admixture addition has become common practice in concrete technology, but the understanding of their highly complex mode of operation is extremely difficult and demands for understanding of processes within the range between nanometres and centimetres. Due to its complex time-dependent, multi-phase and multi-scale behaviour, flowable concrete systems are highly complicated and cannot be described comprehensively by simple models. It is therefore extremely challenging to identify the relevant parameters that predominantly control flow phenomena on different size scales, since these may occur on any scale between the nano scale (e.g. superplasticizer adsorption) and macro scale (e.g. grading of the aggregates). The present study discusses fundamental mechanisms at the interface between particle or hydrate surfaces and the fluid phase at a very early stage of concrete formation, and links these effects to macroscopic flow phenomena. Methods are discussed that appear promising interdisciplinary tools for enhancement of the understanding of the relevant interactions that are responsible for the macroscopic flow of flowable concrete. T2 - 25. Workshop und Kolloquium Rheologische Messsungen an Baustoffen CY - Regensburg, Germany DA - 02.03.2016 KW - Rheology KW - Cement KW - Concrete KW - Superplasticizer KW - Nano scale PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-7345-1313-8 SP - 294 EP - 307 PB - tredition CY - Hamburg AN - OPUS4-36862 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Weba, Luciana A1 - Silbernagl, Dorothee A1 - Mota Gassó, Berta A1 - Höhne, Patrick A1 - Sturm, Heinz A1 - Pauli, Jutta A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Steinborn, Gabriele ED - Khayat, Kamal Henry T1 - Influences of nano effects on the flow phenomena of self-compacting concrete N2 - Chemical admixtures like superplasticisers or stabilising agents are of ever increasing importance for modern concrete technology. They liberate the workability of concrete from its dependency on water content, and thus, open the gate towards innovative and future oriented concrete technologies such as selfcompacting concrete. Meanwhile admixtures have become common practice in concrete technology, but the understanding of these highly complex polymers in the entire concrete system lags far behind their application. Due to its complex time-dependent, multi-phase and multi-scale behaviour, flowable concrete systems are highly complicated and cannot be described comprehensively by simple models. It is therefore extremely challenging to identify the relevant parameters that predominantly control flow phenomena on different size scales, since these may occur on any scale between the nano scale (e.g. superplasticizer adsorption) and macro scale (e.g. grading of the aggregates). The present study discusses fundamental mechanisms at the interface between particle or hydrate surfaces and the fluid phase at a very early stage of concrete formation, and links these effects to macroscopic flow phenomena. Methods are discussed that appear promising interdisciplinary tools for enhancement of the understanding of the relevant interactions that are responsible for the macroscopic flow of flowable concrete. T2 - 8th International RILEM Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete CY - Washington, D.C., USA DA - 15.05.2016 KW - Adsorption KW - Analytics KW - Hydration KW - Polycarboxylate ether KW - Rheology PY - 2016 SP - 245 EP - 254 AN - OPUS4-36882 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mota Gassó, Berta A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Pauli, Jutta A1 - Sturm, Heinz T1 - Influences of hydration effects on the flow phenomena of concrete with admixtures N2 - Today, chemical admixtures like superplasticisers and stabilising agents are extremely important for modern concrete technology. These agents have meanwhile become common practice in concrete technology, but the understanding within the entire system lags far behind their application. The macroscopic rheology of concrete in the presence of superplasticizers strongly depends upon effects on a much smaller scale such as the hydration of the cement, the adsorption of superplasticizers, and the pore solution chemistry. T2 - 2nd International Conference on the Chemistry of Construction Materials CY - München, Germany DA - 10.10.2016 KW - Rheology KW - Cement KW - Superplasticiser PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-936028-96-6 VL - 50 SP - 276 EP - 279 PB - Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. CY - Frankfurt am Main AN - OPUS4-38849 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Crasselt, Claudia A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Sturm, Heinz T1 - Influence of rheology modifying admixtures on early hydration of cementitious suspensions N2 - The presence of polycarboxylate ether (PCE) based superplasticizers (SPs) has enormous influence on the early hydration of cement. C3A as the most reactive phase of Portland cement plays a significant role in early hydration reactions and affects the rheological performance. Therefore, this paper presents experimental results about the influence of delayed addition of PCEs on the Hydration of cement and C3A-gypsum pastes investigated by isothermal heat flow calorimetry. Complementary in-situ XRD was carried out on C3A pastes to analyze hydration and phase changes related to the addition of PCE. Cement pastes with a delayed addition of PCE showed less Retardation compared to simultaneous addition. The alteration caused by PCE is much more pronounced for C3A-gypsum mixes. With a delayed addition of SP, the hydration of C3A is less retarded or even accelerated. It is obvious that there is less retardation the later the addition of SP. Furthermore, the PCE alter the hydration of C3A when added delayed and exhibit changes in kinetics and hydration rates. XRD results showed that more C3A is dissolved in the presence of PCE. Also, the gypsum depletion occurs earlier in the presence of PCE and even faster with delayed addition. Without PCE AFm starts to form just after the gypsum depletion. However, in the presence of PCE AFm already starts to form at the beginning of the hydration. Due to the faster gypsum depletion in the presence of PCE, also the transformation from ettringite into AFm begins earlier, but takes longer as without SP. T2 - 15th International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement CY - Prague, Czech Republic DA - 16.09.2019 KW - Cement KW - C3A KW - Early hydration KW - Polycarboxylate ether (PCE) KW - Delayed addition PY - 2019 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-49104 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Crasselt, Claudia A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Sturm, Heinz T1 - Influence of Rheology Modifying Admixtures on Hydration of Cementitious Suspensions N2 - The presence of polycarboxylate ether (PCE) based superplasticizers (SPs) has an enormous influence on the early hydration of cement. The hydration is retarded and the timing of formation and the morphology of hydrates is affected. This short paper presents experimental results about the influence of delayed addition time of PCE SPs on hydration of cement and alite pastes, investigated by isothermal heat flow calorimetry. For cement as well as for alite pastes the hydration is retarded with SP, whereby the high charge PCE has a stronger retarding effect than the low charge PCE. The retardation caused by PCE is much more pronounced for alite than for cement mixes. If PCE is added later to the mix, the induction period is shortened and the hydration is accelerated compared to simultaneous addition. This applies for cement and alite pastes. With delayed PCE addition the alite shows a clearly less retarded setting and main hydration than after simultaneous addition. It is obvious that for alite pastes there is less retardation the later the addition of SP. T2 - 6th International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Construction CY - Hong Kong, China DA - 02.12.2018 KW - Polycarboxylate ether (PCE) KW - Early hydration KW - Cement PY - 2018 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-47204 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Crasselt, Claudia A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Sturm, Heinz ED - M. Tyrer, ED - E. Ganjian, ED - West, A. T1 - Influence of rheology modifying admixtures on hydration of cementitious suspensions N2 - The presence of polycarboxylate ether (PCE) based superplasticizers (SPs) has an enormous influence on the early hydration of cement. The hydration is retarded and the timing of formation and the morphology of hydrates is affected. This short paper presents experimental results about the influence of delayed Addition time of PCE SPs on hydration of cement and tricalcium aluminate (C3A) pastes, investigated by isothermal heat flow calorimetry. For cement pastes the hydration is retarded with SP, whereby the high charge PCE has a stronger retarding effect than the low charge PCE. With delayed PCE addition the cement shows a less retarded setting than with simultaneous addition. The alteration caused by PCE is much more pronounced for C3A and gypsum mixes than for cement. If the SP is added simultaneous, the exothermic peak of C3A is retarded. However, with delayed addition of SP the hydration is shortened, the gypsum depletion is fastened and the exothermic peak occurs less retarded or even accelerated compared to simultaneous addition. It is obvious that for C3A pastes there is less retardation the later the Addition of SP. Furthermore, the PCE alter the hydration of C3A when added delayed and exhibit changes in kinetics and hydration rates. The rate of reaction in the second stage is lower, discernible in decreased slopes and broader peaks. Besides this, a distinct ramp in the C3A heat flow curves within the first stage of C3A hydration occurs for all pastes with delayed addition of SP, which suggests an accelerated ettringite formation. T2 - 38th Cement and Concrete Science Conference CY - Coventry, UK DA - 10.09.2018 KW - Cement hydration KW - Polycarboxylate ether KW - C3A hydration PY - 2018 SN - 978-1-84600-088-1 SP - 64 EP - 67 CY - Coventry, UK AN - OPUS4-45995 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -