Within a context of sustainable development, innovative processes for various applications to recycle rubber are put in place to make aggregates or crumb rubber. These uses include sports floor coverings, to manufactu...Within a context of sustainable development, innovative processes for various applications to recycle rubber are put in place to make aggregates or crumb rubber. These uses include sports floor coverings, to manufacture of sealants, sound absorbing walls, to make roads, as an alternative fuel in cement kilns, etc. In this study, the addition of crumb rubber to mortar was investigated through optical and mechanical tests. The results showed that the incorporation of crumb rubber from used tires into mortar produced a better resistance to shrinkage cracking, but a compressive strength/tensile is reduced. This feature could lend itself to making playgrounds and sports grounds more absorbing and flexible, which would allow a more significant fall to be withstood without injury and consequently enhance the safety of playgrounds.展开更多
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 an...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.展开更多
This paper presents research on transport properties and alkali-silica reaction (ASR) susceptibility of mortars containing a pozzolanic waste generated in the fluid catalytic cracking (wFCC) unit by the Portuguese oil...This paper presents research on transport properties and alkali-silica reaction (ASR) susceptibility of mortars containing a pozzolanic waste generated in the fluid catalytic cracking (wFCC) unit by the Portuguese oil-refinery. For this purpose, two series of mortars were prepared by partially replacing cement with 5%, 10% and 15% of wFCC catalyst. The main difference between the two series of mortars is the sand reactivity used in their composition. The results revealed that wFCC catalyst blended cement mortars exhibit an increased resistance against capillary water absorption and chloride migration, as well as a considerable inhibition effect on deleterious ASR expansion. However, under the adopted experimental conditions the incorporation of wFCC catalyst in mortars decreases their carbonation resistance.展开更多
文摘Within a context of sustainable development, innovative processes for various applications to recycle rubber are put in place to make aggregates or crumb rubber. These uses include sports floor coverings, to manufacture of sealants, sound absorbing walls, to make roads, as an alternative fuel in cement kilns, etc. In this study, the addition of crumb rubber to mortar was investigated through optical and mechanical tests. The results showed that the incorporation of crumb rubber from used tires into mortar produced a better resistance to shrinkage cracking, but a compressive strength/tensile is reduced. This feature could lend itself to making playgrounds and sports grounds more absorbing and flexible, which would allow a more significant fall to be withstood without injury and consequently enhance the safety of playgrounds.
基金Funded bv "863" Proaram of China (No. 2005AA332010)
文摘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.
文摘This paper presents research on transport properties and alkali-silica reaction (ASR) susceptibility of mortars containing a pozzolanic waste generated in the fluid catalytic cracking (wFCC) unit by the Portuguese oil-refinery. For this purpose, two series of mortars were prepared by partially replacing cement with 5%, 10% and 15% of wFCC catalyst. The main difference between the two series of mortars is the sand reactivity used in their composition. The results revealed that wFCC catalyst blended cement mortars exhibit an increased resistance against capillary water absorption and chloride migration, as well as a considerable inhibition effect on deleterious ASR expansion. However, under the adopted experimental conditions the incorporation of wFCC catalyst in mortars decreases their carbonation resistance.
