By adding water to a clinker (in the absence of gypsum) partially or totally hardening occurs due to the start of the hydration reactions of clinker phases. You can follow degree of the hidration using Rietveld anaysis.
Isabel I want to follow the hydration process of a cement using rietveld analysis, but I don't have the information of all the phases that can be formed during the hydration, could you recommend me a paper o say me this phases?.
If you can help me, I would be very grateful.
The reaction with water is termed "hydration". This involves many different reactions, often occurring at the same time. As the reactions proceed, the products of the hydration process gradually bond together the individual sand and gravel particles, and other components of the concrete, to form a solid mass.In the anhydrous state, four main types of minerals are normally present: alite, belite, aluminate (C3A) and a ferrite phase (C4AF). When water is added, the reactions which occur are mostly exothermic, that is, the reactions generate heat.
Flash setting will occurre in order to absence of ettringite, wich increase the workability of cement
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