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Research Paper
P.G. Student,
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ABSTRACT:
With the greater speed of construction, usage of concrete is adequately increase with that it has become imperative to
adjudge the performance of concrete. Property of fresh concrete mainly governed by cement paste which depends on the
dispersion of cement particles. The physcio-chemical interactions of cement hydration are complex phenomenon which
mainly depends on cement composition, w/c ratio and temperature. Now a days admixture or additives also used to alter the
hydration process. Therefore the rheological or flow properties of concrete are important because many factors as
workability, consolidation, durability and strength depend on it. In present work, an attempt has been made to make the
people aware about the different testing methods with different composition of concrete mixes used worldwide and present
state of research.
KEY WORDS: Concrete, Cement hydration, Rheological or Flow properties.
INTRODUCTION:
The flow or rheological properties of cement paste
and concrete are proving to be very important while
calculating for concrete mix designs. In the
construction field terms like workability, flow ability,
cohesion and interchangeably are used to describe the
behaviour of concrete under the condition of flow.
Though these terms are very subjective in its own,
fundamental and quantitative information of concrete
flow is required.
Concrete is said to be fresh before the period of its
final setting, despite of taking care of procedure to
make good quality of fresh concrete, the voids which
present in concrete affect the performance of
concrete, so it is required to achieve desire
workability of concrete. The American Concrete
Institute describes workability as that the property of
freshly mixed concrete or mortar that determine the
ease with which it can be mixed, placed, consolidated
and finished to a homogenous condition.
Required workability can be achieved in two ways:
To the given method and conditions of concrete
processing, rheological properties of concrete
mix is adjusted.
To the given rheological properties of concrete
mix, method and conditions of concrete
processing are adjusted. In practice, the first
method is usually used.
The term workability is broadly defined; no single
method is capable of measuring all aspects of
workability of cement paste, cement mortar or
concrete. Although some conventional methods are in
use to measure performance of the fresh concrete
mainly the workability. An excerpt of the research
work carried out in this field is discussed under.
An attempt was made by L. Agullo, B. TorallesCarbonari, R. Gettu and A. Aguado1 to study about
Fluidity of cement pastes with mineral admixtures
and super plasticizer- A study based on the Marsh
cone test. The main aimed of authors was to obtain a
practical measure of fluidity of cement pastes which
contains super plasticizer and silica fume by Marsh
cone test. In the method, authors considered two
condensed silica fumes in which one with a super
plasticizer incorporated in it and the other without
any super plasticizer and two diatomite powders
(contains water demand 54% and 41%) as mineral
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E-ISSN22498974