Papers by Keyword: Metakaoline

Abstract: Use a ternary binder for production of a high performance concrete with a compressive strengths between 120 and 170 MPa is presented. The water to binder ratio of the concrete is 0.225 and the binder is composed of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), condensed silica fume (CSF), ground limestone (L), fly ash (FA) and metakaoline (MK). The dosage of (M + CSF) is kept at a constant level for a better workability of fresh concrete. Different workability, flexural and compressive strengths were obtained for concretes with a constant cement and a metakaoline dosage, and for a constant dosage (FA + L) but a different ratio FA / L. An optimum composition was found and concretes for other tests were designed using this composition.

Abstract: The powder materials containing active SiO₂, which are used as pozzolanic active materials in cement mixtures, can be classified in consideration of their pozzolana activity, particle size or reactivity. In this paper, several types of metakaoline are studied using Frattini and modified Chapelle test for pozzolanic activity determination. The particle size analysis is measured using the laser diffraction analyser and the differences in the chemical composition are characterized by FTIR spectroscopy. The obtained data show influence of particle size and chemical composition of tested powders on their pozzolanic activity, which corresponds with the results of Frattini and modified Chapelle test.