@article{VanoutrivevandenHeedeAldereteetal., author = {Vanoutrive, Hanne and van den Heede, Philip and Alderete, Natalia and Andrade, Carmen and Bansal, Tushar and Cam{\~o}es, Aires and Cizer, {\"O}zlem and de Belie, Nele and Ducman, Vilma and Etxeberria, Miren and Frederickx, Lander and Grengg, Cyrill and Ignjatović, Ivan and Ling, Tung-Chai and Liu, Zhiyuan and Garcia-Lodeiro, In{\´e}s and Lothenbach, Barbara and Medina Martinez, C{\´e}sar and Sanchez-Montero, Javier and Olonade, Kolawole and Palomo, Angel and Phung, Quoc Tri and Rebolledo, Nuria and Sakoparnig, Marlene and Sideris, Kosmas and Thiel, Charlotte and Visalakshi, Talakokula and Vollpracht, Anya and von Greve-Dierfeld, Stefanie and Wei, Jinxin and Wu, Bei and Zając, Maciej and Zhao, Zengfeng and Gruyaert, Elke}, title = {Report of RILEM TC 281-CCC: outcomes of a round robin on the resistance to accelerated carbonation of Portland, Portland-fly ash and blast-furnace blended cements}, series = {Materials and Structures}, volume = {55}, journal = {Materials and Structures}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, doi = {10.1617/s11527-022-01927-7}, pages = {1 -- 29}, abstract = {Many (inter)national standards exist to evaluate the resistance of mortar and concrete to carbonation. When a carbonation coefficient is used for performance comparison of mixtures or service life prediction, the applied boundary conditions during curing, preconditioning and carbonation play a crucial role, specifically when using latent hydraulic or pozzolanic supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). An extensive interlaboratory test (ILT) with twenty two participating laboratories was set up in the framework of RILEM TC 281-CCC 'Carbonation of Concrete with SCMs'. The carbonation depths and coefficients determined by following several (inter)national standards for three cement types (CEM I, CEM II/B-V, CEM III/B) both on mortar and concrete scale were statistically compared. The outcomes of this study showed that the carbonation rate based on the carbonation depths after 91 days exposure, compared to 56 days or less exposure duration, best approximates the slope of the linear regression and those 91 days carbonation depths can therefore be considered as a good estimate of the potential resistance to carbonation. All standards evaluated in this study ranked the three cement types in the same order of carbonation resistance. Unfortunately, large variations within and between laboratories complicate to draw clear conclusions regarding the effect of sample pre-conditioning and carbonation exposure conditions on the carbonation performance of the specimens tested. Nevertheless, it was identified that fresh and hardened state properties alone cannot be used to infer carbonation resistance of the mortars or concretes tested. It was also found that sealed curing results in larger carbonation depths compared to water curing. However, when water curing was reduced from 28 to 3 or 7 days, higher carbonation depths compared to sealed curing were observed. This increase is more pronounced for CEM I compared to CEM III mixes. The variation between laboratories is larger than the potential effect of raising the CO2 concentration from 1 to 4\%. Finally, concrete, for which the aggregate-to-cement factor was increased by 1.79 in comparison with mortar, had a carbonation coefficient 1.18 times the one of mortar. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1617/s11527-022-01927-7.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{VollprachtGluthRogiersetal., author = {Vollpracht, Anya and Gluth, Gregor J. G. and Rogiers, Bart and Uwanuakwa, Ikenna D. and Phung, Quoc Tri and Zaccardi, Yury Villagran and Thiel, Charlotte and Vanoutrive, Hanne and Etcheverry, Juan Manuel and Gruyaert, Elke and Kamali-Bernard, Siham and Kanellopoulos, Antonios and Zhao, Zengfeng and Martins, Isabel Milagre and Rathnarajan, Sundar and De Belie, Nele}, title = {Report of RILEM TC 281-CCC: Insights into factors affecting the carbonation rate of concrete with SCMs revealed from data mining and machine learning approaches}, publisher = {Research Square Platform LLC}, doi = {10.21203/rs.3.rs-4169492/v1}, abstract = {The RILEM TC 281-CCC ''Carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials'' conducted a study on the effects of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) on the carbonation rate of blended cement concretes and mortars. In this context, a comprehensive database has been established, consisting of 1044 concrete and mortar mixes with their associated carbonation depth data over time. The dataset comprises mix designs with a large variety of binders with up to 94\% SCMs, collected from the literature as well as unpublished testing reports. The data includes chemical composition and physical properties of the raw materials, mix-designs, compressive strengths, curing and carbonation testing conditions. Natural carbonation was recorded for several years in many cases with both indoor and outdoor results. The database has been analysed to investigate the effects of binder composition and mix design, curing and preconditioning, and relative humidity on the carbonation rate. Furthermore, the accuracy of accelerated carbonation testing as well as possible correlations between compressive strength and carbonation resistance were evaluated. The analysis revealed that the w/CaOreactive ratio is a decisive factor for carbonation resistance, while curing and exposure conditions also influence carbonation. Under natural exposure conditions, the carbonation data exhibit significant variations. Nevertheless, probabilistic inference suggests that both accelerated and natural carbonation processes follow a square-root-of-time behavior, though accelerated and natural carbonation cannot be converted into each other without corrections. Additionally, a machine learning technique was employed to assess the influence of parameters governing the carbonation progress in concretes.}, language = {en} }