Preparation of High Impermeable and Crack-resistance Chemical Admixture and Its Mechanism

A kind of high impermeable and crack-resistance chemical admixture ( HICRCA) was prepared , which is a compound chemical admixture composed of an expansion ingredient, density ingredient, and organic hydrophobic poreblocking ingredient. The results of the experiments indicate that the addition of HICRCA improves mortar and concrete in the following performances: (1) perfect workability: slump is more than 22cm, theslump afar 3h is about 16cm; (2) high impermeability:for the mortar, the pervious height under a water pressure of 1.5MPa is 1.5cm,for the concrete, the pervious height under a water pressure of 5.0MPa is 2. 2cm;(3) high crack-resistance: there is a micro-expansion at the age of 90d; (4) high compressivestrength: compared with the controlled concrete, the compressive strengths at the age of 3d and 2Sd are improved by 66.4% and 62.0% , respectively. At the same time, the effects of different curing condition on mortar and concrete expansive andshrinkage performance were studied. In addition, the impermeable and crack-resistance mechanism, was investigatedin the present paper.

Effect of Modified Polymer on Crack Resistance of Mortar

At present, the basic technical principle in China is to adopt polymers to modifying the properties of mortar so as to improve the crack-resistance of construction structures and to strengthen their water-resisting and climate-resisting properties as well. However, how polymer acts on anti-crack mortar is short of systematic research. Theoretical exposition of polymer mortar is basically explained by Ohama Model, which is cement slaking and polymer coating are carried on together and mutually-cross web structure interweaved with liquid and polymer coating. But anti-crack mortar has its own special characteristics because of fewer polymers mixed in it and its high viscosity. So this paper is to showing how different polymers affect its crack-resistance cannot be reflected from this theory. Vinyl-acetate ethylene (VAC/E) has been selected as representation of polymerization, whose property is modified by compounding it from some inorganic components, such as talc, CaCO3 and so on. And then the mechanics property and shrinkage of anti-crack polymer mortar is tested when different amount of polymers is added as admixture of mortar. The result indicates that, the working performance and mechanics property of the polymer mortar are worse mixed VAC/E only. It basically meets the demands for mechanics strength and working performance when mixed both VAC/E and CaCO3. While it achieves much better mechanical property and working performance than the two former when mixed VAC/E,talc and CaCO3; the result of corresponding scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of sample indicates that the internal result of the polymer mortar, compared with classical Ohama Model, has a particularity that its structure is formed by polymer coating instead of filling up the intervals among cement grains.