Kinetics Comparison of Alkali-Reactivity Tests for Aggregates

Abstract:

Among the test-methods for evaluation of aggregates reactivity towards alkali-silica reaction (ASR), linear dilatation of mortar bars or concrete prisms is often used in several tests under various conditions, criteria and procedures of measuring and accelerating the reaction. As reactivity is an essentially kinetic property, the expansion limits in such tests, or even tests results for the same aggregate, should be kinetically inter-related.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 634)
• Pages: 506-516
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.634.506
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Luis Mayor Gonzalez*, António Santos Silva, Said Jalali
• Keywords: Aggregates, Alkali-Silica Reaction, Expansion Tests, Reactivity

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