Sentence examples for limestone cement from inspiring English sources

Limestone cement, containing 15% limestone, was used.

Three cements were examined: (i) Portland cement, (ii) limestone cement containing 15% limestone and (iii) limestone cement containing 30% limestone.

Concrete specimens were prepared with Portland limestone cement as well as by replacing a certain amount of limestone cement with natural pozzolana, fly ash, blastfurnace slag or metakaolin.

Limestone cement concrete is susceptible to thaumasite form of sulfate attack at 5 °C.

The partial replacement of limestone cement with mineral admixtures retards and inhibits concrete's deterioration.

In this work the effect of mineral admixtures on the thaumasite form of sulfate attack in limestone cement concrete is studied.

A Portland limestone cement-based concrete with a 0.38 water/cement ratio is used to cast cubic and prismatic specimens, in association with two different PET fibres obtained through extrusion of recycled PET flakes (R-PET).

Two different interground portland limestone cements (PLCs) and three blended limestone cements were examined.

The production of Portland-limestone cements seems to be very challenging, due to the satisfactory properties of the limestone cements as well as the low cost and the high availability of limestone in Greece.

This paper examines the behavior of Portland limestone cements (PLCs) made by inter-grinding clinker, gypsum and limestone in a full size-cement plant, while varying the content of limestone filler (LF – 0% and 24%), content of gypsum (GC – 2.5% and 5.0%) and PLC fineness, measured as that fraction retained on a 45 μm sieve (R45 – 5% and 18%).

It takes the form of rock fragments mainly derived from older Carboniferous Limestone cemented together by lime and sand which hardened to give the appearance of concrete.