Why is the joint milling of cement with superplasticizer (powder) more effective than the addition of plasticizer in milled cement?

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Lukasz Sadowski

Dear Roman,

I found similar questions which may help you:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_best_plasticizer_for_concrete_self-compacting

Best regards

Łukasz

Reza Abdollahi

it can be explained by studying surface properties of cement-plasticizer and cement-superplasticizer and comparison of microscopic analysis such as SEM images. I is probably can be related to the differences of crosslinks formation in these two cases of jointing.