Early-Age Self-Healing of Cementitious Materials Containing Ground Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag under Water Curing
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In order to limit the release of CO2 emissions produced by cement manufacturing, clinker, the major cement component, is often partially replaced by mineral additions such as Ground Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag (GGBFS). Civil-engineering structures made with GGBFS cement can however present cracking at early age (< 28 days) due to re-strained shrinkage that significantly affects their durability and their material transport properties. Self-healing may limit these phenomena. In order to study and quantify self-healing kinetics, X-ray tomography tests for mortars with different GGBFS contents are performed. Results show that X-ray tomography provides valuable information inside the specimens: crack openings and healing products distribution. It is also shown that self-healing evolves rapidly during the first weeks of water curing and it is more important for cementitious materials containing GGBFS. This is due to their lower early age hydration degree allowing an ongoing hydration after cracking and the formation of supplementary C-S-H along the crack.
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OpenAlex topics: Concrete and Cement Materials Research · Microbial Applications in Construction Materials · Concrete Properties and Behavior
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LMT (ENS Cachan, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay), Cachan, France and Centre de recherche sur les infrastructures en béton (CRIB), University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
LMT (ENS Cachan, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay), Cachan, France.
Centre de recherche sur les infrastructures en béton (CRIB), University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
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