Impacts of Wetting Fly Ash on the Properties of Concrete
WU Chuan ming,QIAN Jue shi,HOU Peng kun,WANG Zhi,WANG Ke jin and LUO Hui
DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2009.05.025
Received April 18, 2009,Revised , Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2009,Pages 132-137
- Abstract
Two types of wetting low calcium fly ash were made for studying the performance under different storage time (1 to 60 months). The surface morphology, granule size distribution of the wetting fly ashes and their properties as supplementary cementitious materials in concrete were investigated. Although the granule size increased and there appeared considerable erosion on the surface, the surface morphology of wetting fly ash kept mostly unchangeable. The water reducing effect resulted from mineral properties of fly ash decreased much due to wetting. Compared with a parallel concrete with dry fly ash, slump of concretes with fly ash of 20~40% wetting for 3 months decreased by 20~40 mm while bleeding and permeability and carbonation had no change. The compressive strength of concrete in 28 day and 60 days with fly ash of 30% wetting for 3 months decreased by 5.8% and 3.7% respectively. However, the specific compressive strength of concrete in 56 days with fly ash of 20% wetting for 36 months still reached at 85% and there was no visible strength discrepancy of fly ash concrete wetting for 3 and 5 years. It was concluded that a wetting low calcium fly ash could be used as supplementary cementitious material in some important concretes.