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    1) Admixtures are added to concrete to modify its properties and improve workability, durability, and performance. Pozzolanic materials like fly ash chemically react with calcium hydroxide released during cement hydration to form compounds with cementitious properties. 2) Pozzolans include natural materials like clays and volcanic ashes or artificial ones like fly ash, slag, silica fume, rice husk ash, and surkhi. Fly ash is a byproduct of coal combustion that can be either siliceous Class F or calcium-rich Class C. Ground granulated blast furnace slag is a byproduct of iron production that reacts with cement. Silica fume is an

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    1) Admixtures are added to concrete to modify its properties and improve workability, durability, and performance. Pozzolanic materials like fly ash chemically react with calcium hydroxide released during cement hydration to form compounds with cementitious properties. 2) Pozzolans include natural materials like clays and volcanic ashes or artificial ones like fly ash, slag, silica fume, rice husk ash, and surkhi. Fly ash is a byproduct of coal combustion that can be either siliceous Class F or calcium-rich Class C. Ground granulated blast furnace slag is a byproduct of iron production that reacts with cement. Silica fume is an

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    1) Admixtures are added to concrete to modify its properties and improve workability, durability, and performance. Pozzolanic materials like fly ash chemically react with calcium hydroxide released during cement hydration to form compounds with cementitious properties. 2) Pozzolans include natural materials like clays and volcanic ashes or artificial ones like fly ash, slag, silica fume, rice husk ash, and surkhi. Fly ash is a byproduct of coal combustion that can be either siliceous Class F or calcium-rich Class C. Ground granulated blast furnace slag is a byproduct of iron production that reacts with cement. Silica fume is an

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    1)Admixtures are chemical compounds or materials that are added to concrete during its

    mixing or placing to enhance or modify its properties. They are used in concrete technology
    to achieve various desired characteristics in the hardened concrete or to improve the
    workability, durability, and performance of the concrete mix.

    2)Pozzolanic materials are siliceous and aluminous materials, which in themselves possess little or no
    cementitious value, but will, in finely divided form and in the presence of moisture, chemically react
    with calcium hydroxide liberated on hydration, at ordinary temperature, to form compounds,
    possessing cementitious properties

    The reaction can be shown as

    Pozzolan + Calcium Hydroxide + Water → C – S – H (Gel)

    • This reaction is called pozzolanic reaction.

    • The characteristic feature of pozzolanic reaction is firstly slow, with the result that heat of
    hydration and strength

    development will be accordingly slow.

    • The reaction involves the consumption of Ca(OH)2 and not

    production of Ca(OH)2.

    • The reduction of Ca(OH)2 improves the durability of cement

    paste by making the paste dense and impervious.

     Natural Pozzolans

    • Clay and Shales

    • Opalinc Cherts

    • Diatomaceous Earth

    • Volcanic Tuffs and Pumicites.

     Artificial Pozzolans

    • Fly ash

    • Blast Furnace Slag

    • Silica Fume

    • Rice Husk ash


    • Metakaoline

    • Surkhi

    Fly Ash:

     Fly ash or pulverised fuel ash (PFA) is the residue from the combustion of pulverized coal
    collected by the mechanical dust collectors or electrostatic precipitators or separators from
    the fuel gases of thermal power plants.

     The fly ash particles are spherical (which is advantageous from the water requirement point
    of view) and have a very high fineness.

     High fineness, low carbon content , good reactivity are the essence of good fly ash.

     The fly ash derived from bituminous coal is mainly siliceous and is known as Class F fly
    ash.only poz prop

     Sub-bituminous coal and lignite result in high lime ash, known as Class C fly ash.rich in CaO
    both cem and poz prop

    Consists of silica alumina and CaO

    GGBS
    by product obtained during the production of iron from iron ore
     alkaline medium required to initiate the hydration is provided by lime, sodium hydroxide or
    gypsum.

     The replacement of cement with GGBS will reduce the unit water content necessary to
    obtain the same slump.

    Strength gain continues for long duration of time

    Reduced hoh

    Increased resistance to chemical attacks

    Reduced perm to ext agencies

    SILICAFUME

     Silica fume is also referred to as microsilica or condensed silica fume.

     It is a by-product of the manufacture of silicon and ferrosilicon alloys from high-purity quartz
    and coal in a submerged arc electric furnace.

     The escaping gaseous SiO oxidizes and condenses in the form of extremely fine spherical
    particles of amorphous silica (SiO2 ) hence the name silica fume.

     Silica in the form of glass(amorphous) is highly reactive and the smallness of the particles
    speeds up the reaction with calcium hydroxide produced by the hydration of Portland
    cement.

    The very small particles of silica fume enter the space between the particles of cement and thus
    improve packing

    Compr strenth and flex strength are inc

    Resistance to abrasion n erosion

    Reduces bleeding

    RICE HUSK ASH

    Burnin rice husk in controlled manner

    Dec perm,hoh and inc resis to chem attacks

    SURKHI

    Surkhi is an artificial pozzolana made by powdering bricks or burnt clay balls


    This admixture is known to reduce the temperature rise during
    hydration in a mass cement concrete and reduce cracking.

    METAKAOLIN

    derived from the calcination (high-temperature heating) of kaolin clay, which is a naturally
    occurring mineral

    shows high pozzolanic reactivity and reduction in Ca(OH)2

    development of early strength

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