In particular, the obtained materials are fully hydrated, which allows performing time-consuming testing (such as e.g. creep and drying-shrinkage tests) on microstructures equivalent to low degrees of hydration, which would not be possible on the hydrating material counterparts.
The more basic slag had higher strengths and greater degrees of hydration especially at the high temperature.
Greater hydration heat and thus higher maturities, degrees of hydration and compressive strengths were obtained for concretes containing up to 40 wt% of added mineral powder.
A demonstration in 2D of how 'active phase content's differ from the measured 'overall phase content's at different degrees of hydration, is provided as well as one in 3D, using a hydration model, for one of the cements.
The low temperature TSDC spectra (80 240 K) were analyzed at two different degrees of hydration to assess the effects of small amounts of loosely and tightly bound water in the observed complex β band.
The results, obtained for a wide range of fineness (between 180 and 2000 m2/kg) and replacement rates (up to 75%), show that short-term degrees of hydration in mortars containing a chemically inert mineral admixture (quartz) are always higher than for a reference mortar.
