Effect of Special Cement CPA on the Characteristic Properties of Cementitious Materials Based Waste Glass Powder: Poozolanic Activity and Heat Treatment

Abstract

Abstract The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of curing method on the compressive strength of waste glass powder as a supplementary cementitious material. This work presents an experimental study on the physico-mechanical characterization of waste glass powder (GP) as partial replacement of special cement (Algerian cement without additions CPA) based high performance cementitious material, varying the percentage of GP by 10%, 20% and 30% (by weight of cement), the curing methods: water curing at 20± 2 °C and heat curing by under accelerated drying in an oven at 100 °C (stoving). Half of the mortar samples 40x40x160 mm were treated with stoving just after demolding then kept in the open air, the other half was kept in fresh water in order to evaluate their sustainability and index of Poozolanic Activity (I) at different ages: 7, 28, 90 and 365 days. The compressive strength results showed that there is an increase in compressive strength with the increase in age of the two curing methods but the strength of all mixtures which have been stoved is inferior to those of the same mixtures preserved in fresh water at different ages. The best rate of replacement of the cement by GP is 20% following the results obtained for the compressive strength and Poozolanic Activity Index I.