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Effects of fineness and substitution ratio of limestone powder on yield stress of cement suspensions

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This paper aims at investigating the evolution of the yield stress of cement suspensions with the variation of its properties for an environmentally friendly alternative material of cement clinker, the limestone powder (LP). We first showed that the yield stress of cement suspensions varies significantly with different particle size distribution, LP substitution ratio and superplasticizer dosage. We then showed that for the cement suspensions without superplasticizer, the yield stress is dominated by the impacts of the median particle size and maximum packing fraction of the binary powder mixtures. However, for the cement suspensions with low dosage of superplasticizer, the yield stress of the LP substituted suspensions decreases with the increase of the substitution ratio. It is finally suggested that the impact of superplasticizer on the yield stress is conspicuous in the condition of similar median particle size and packing properties while can be neglected in the case of the significant change of the particle size of the powder mixtures.

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the research supports by the National Natural Science Fund of China (Grant Nos. 51508090, 51890904 and 51608286). And also greatly appreciate Jiangsu Research Institute of Building Science Co., Ltd and the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Civil Engineering Materials for funding the research project.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Wenqiang Zuo & Wei She

  2. Jiangsu Research Institute of Building Science Co., Ltd, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Wenqiang Zuo, Qian Tian & Wen Xu

  3. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Civil Engineering Materials, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Wenqiang Zuo, Qian Tian & Wen Xu

  4. College of Civil Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225000, China

    Wei Li

  5. College of Civil Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, 266033, China

    Penggang Wang

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Microscopic morphologies of the powder materials used in this study: a cement powders; b LP1; c LP2; d LP3

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Relative yield stress of cement pastes with different volume substitution ratios of LP1 by taking into consideration the median particle size and packing properties of powders (The x-axis and y-axis stand for the substitution of LP and the relative yield stress, respectively and the same as below): a W/C = 0.60; b W/C = 0.40; c W/C = 0.35; d W/C = 0.30

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Relative yield stress of cement pastes with different volume substitution ratios of LP2 by taking into consideration the median particle size and packing properties of powders: a W/C = 0.60; b W/C = 0.40; c W/C = 0.35; d W/C = 0.30

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Relative yield stress of cement pastes with different volume substitution ratios of LP3 by taking into consideration the median particle size and packing properties of powders: a W/C = 0.60; b W/C = 0.40; c W/C = 0.35; d W/C = 0.30

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Zuo, W., She, W., Li, W. et al. Effects of fineness and substitution ratio of limestone powder on yield stress of cement suspensions. Mater Struct 52, 74 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-019-1378-1

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