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Structural Evolution and Compressive Strength at 3, 7, 14 and 28 Days of Mixtures of Mortars Substituting Portland Cement for 0, 10 and 15% Fly Ash

Version 1 : Received: 27 April 2023 / Approved: 3 May 2023 / Online: 3 May 2023 (12:57:10 CEST)

How to cite: Juárez-Tapia, J.; García-Ortiz, H.; Pérez-Labra, M.; Romero-Serrano, J.; Reyes-Pérez, M.; Barrientos-Hernández, F.; Teja-Ruiz, A. Structural Evolution and Compressive Strength at 3, 7, 14 and 28 Days of Mixtures of Mortars Substituting Portland Cement for 0, 10 and 15% Fly Ash. Preprints 2023, 2023050155. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0155.v1 Juárez-Tapia, J.; García-Ortiz, H.; Pérez-Labra, M.; Romero-Serrano, J.; Reyes-Pérez, M.; Barrientos-Hernández, F.; Teja-Ruiz, A. Structural Evolution and Compressive Strength at 3, 7, 14 and 28 Days of Mixtures of Mortars Substituting Portland Cement for 0, 10 and 15% Fly Ash. Preprints 2023, 2023050155. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0155.v1

Abstract

Samples of mortar mixtures were prepared substituting the cement Portland (CPC-30R) by 0 (standard), 10 and 15% of fly ash and the structural evolution and compressive strength at 3, 7, 14 and 28 days were determined. The results for standard mortar samples showed the mineralogi-cal species portlandite, calcite, ettringite, iron oxide, silicon oxide and sillimanite. Magnetite was identified in the mixtures of mortars with portland cement substitution by 10% and 15% fly ash. The peaks corresponding to the portlandite, and ettringite showed an increase in their intensities with increasing curing time attributed to the consolidation of mineral species. The SEM tech-nique results showed that the mortar samples without fly ash addition contained mainly port-landite and ettringite while the samples with cement substitution by 10 and 15% of fly ash at 28 days further contained particles of fly ash coated with portlandite and ettringite, particles with a smooth surface and particles of fly ash with signs of attack on its surface. An increase inc was observed when the age of the mortar and the substitution of Portland cement by fly ash were increased from 3 to 28 days and from 0 to 15% respectively. The maximum value of c was reg-istered for the mortar sample with Portland cement substitution by 15% fly ash at 28 days of curing with 17.38 Mpa.

Keywords

Fly ash; mortar; compressive strength; Portland cement; structural evolution; compressive strength

Subject

Engineering, Metallurgy and Metallurgical Engineering

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