Modified water-cement ratio law for silica fume concretes |
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Authors: | S. Bhanja B. Sengupta |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Civil Engineering, Bengal Engineering College (D.U.), Howrah, West Bengal 711103, India b Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India |
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Abstract: | The application of condensed silica fume as a mineral admixture in concrete is almost a routine one nowadays for the production of tailor-made high-performance concretes. Abrams' Law, which was originally formulated for conventional concrete containing cement as the only cementitious material, is not directly applicable to these new-generation concretes. In the present paper, modified relationships have been proposed to evaluate the strength of silica fume concrete. An extensive experimentation was carried out to determine the isolated effect of silica fume on concrete, and, analyzing the 28-day strength results of 32 concrete mixes performed over a wide range of water-binder ratios and silica fume replacement percentages, simplified relationships have been proposed. These simplified models might serve as useful guides for proportioning concrete mixes incorporating silica fume. |
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Keywords: | Concrete Silica fume Water-cementitious material ratio Compressive strength Modeling |
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