Xiang Li, Sébastien Caes, Thomas Pardoen, Geert De Schutter, Tom Hauffman, Bruno Kursten
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Abstract
A quantitative characterization of the capillary porosity of cement pastes has been performed in the context of corrosion of aluminium alloy 1100 in contact with Portland cement pastes. The originality of the study is to combine an electrical equivalent circuit model identified based on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) data and a two-phase model derived from the general effective media theory (GEM). The effective resistance of the cement paste entering the GEM is approximated by the resistance of connected capillary pores as provided by the EIS analysis to determine the evolving porosity of cement pastes. Mercury intrusion porosimetry data agree with the porosity results obtained from EIS. The porosity in the 0.36 OPC is reduced from ~ 15% to below 10% over the first 30 days and then keeps decreasing slowly, while the porosity of the 0.36 OPC + 3% LiNO3 samples slightly decreases at the beginning and finally remains constant at ~ 10%. For the 0.50 OPC + 1.607% Li2CO3 composition, the porosity decreases from ~ 25% to ~ 15% over the first 30 days. The influence of the curing conditions is also studied to extract the impact on the porosity. Besides, the diffusion of corrosion products is limited to a small region near the interface and hence the corrosion process does not affect the porosity of the cement paste.
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Materials and Structures, the flagship publication of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), provides a unique international and interdisciplinary forum for new research findings on the performance of construction materials. A leader in cutting-edge research, the journal is dedicated to the publication of high quality papers examining the fundamental properties of building materials, their characterization and processing techniques, modeling, standardization of test methods, and the application of research results in building and civil engineering. Materials and Structures also publishes comprehensive reports prepared by the RILEM’s technical committees.