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Effects of Shale and CaO Incorporation on Mechanical Properties and Autogenous Deformation of Early-age Concrete

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The pre-soaked shale employed as an internal curing agent and CaO employed as expansion agent were incorporated into concrete to investigate their effects on the mechanical properties and autogenous deformation of early-age concrete. We have conducted the relevant tests for setting time, mechanical properties, internal relative humidity and autogenous deformation of early-age concrete with shale or/and CaO incorporation. The results indicate that the set behavior is delayed by shale addition but is accelerated with CaO. The shale addition firstly enhances and subsequently decreases the strength, but CEA addition has a weakening effect. Additionally, shale or/and CaO incorporation deteriorates the elastic modulus. The shale and CaO incorporation significantly improve the internal relative humidity of concrete. The internal curing efficacy of shale could synergistically mitigate the autogenous shrinkage, that is, could enhance the expansion of CaO and then greatly reduce the contraction, which is significantly beneficial to impede the shrinkage-introduced cracks of early-age concrete.

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Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1965105, 51878245, 52008189), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. B200203197), National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFB0310100), Ningbo 2025 Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2020Z035) and the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Civil Engineering Materials (No. 2019CEM001)

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  1. College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210024, China

    Haitao Zhao  (赵海涛), Jinghao Li, Hui Liu, Jie Huang & Jianhua Jiang

  2. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Haitao Zhao  (赵海涛), Wen Xu  (徐文) & Hua Li

  3. School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, China

    Jinghao Li

  4. Agile Property Holdings Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, 510000, China

    Hui Liu

  5. Jiangsu Sobute New Materials Co. Ltd., Nanjing, 211103, China

    Wen Xu  (徐文), Hua Li & Li Pan

  6. Department of Civil Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, 266033, China

    Penggang Wang  (王鹏刚)

  7. Digital Engineering Institute, Henan Water & Power Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou, 450016, China

    Yuming Zhang

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Zhao, H., Li, J., Liu, H. et al. Effects of Shale and CaO Incorporation on Mechanical Properties and Autogenous Deformation of Early-age Concrete. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 36, 653–663 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-021-2457-z

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