Calcium chloride is one of the main de-icing salts for removing snow and ice from roads, infrastructures and service areas. It is well known that reinforced concrete structures, if exposed to calcium chloride, can suffer from severe damages due to both corrosion of steel reinforcement and chemical attack of the cement paste. This paper aims at evaluating the resistance to chemical attack of mortars manufactured with different low-carbon binders (alkali activated slag cements, calcium sulphoaluminate cement-based blends, high volume ultrafine fly ashes cements) in presence of CaCl2-based de-icing salts in cold weather (temperature about 4°C). Results indicated that alkali activated slag-based mortars are quasi-immune to calcium chloride attack due to their mineralogical composition. On the contrary, calcium sulphoaluminate-based blends show the total loss of binding capacity, especially when calcium sulphoaluminate cement is used with gypsum and Portland cement. Finally, the partial substitution of Portland cement with ultrafine fly ash strongly reduces the mass change and the strength loss of mortars submerged in 30 wt.% CaCl2 solutions due to the strong reduction of calcium hydroxide responsible for the calcium oxychloride formation in the cement paste.
(2022). Durability of Mortars Manufactured with Low-Carbon Binders Exposed to Calcium Chloride-Based De-Icing Salts . Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/232469
Durability of Mortars Manufactured with Low-Carbon Binders Exposed to Calcium Chloride-Based De-Icing Salts
Coffetti, Denny;Cabrini, Marina;Crotti, Elena;Gazzaniga, Gabriele;Lorenzi, Sergio;Pastore, Tommaso;Coppola, Luigi
2022-01-01
Abstract
Calcium chloride is one of the main de-icing salts for removing snow and ice from roads, infrastructures and service areas. It is well known that reinforced concrete structures, if exposed to calcium chloride, can suffer from severe damages due to both corrosion of steel reinforcement and chemical attack of the cement paste. This paper aims at evaluating the resistance to chemical attack of mortars manufactured with different low-carbon binders (alkali activated slag cements, calcium sulphoaluminate cement-based blends, high volume ultrafine fly ashes cements) in presence of CaCl2-based de-icing salts in cold weather (temperature about 4°C). Results indicated that alkali activated slag-based mortars are quasi-immune to calcium chloride attack due to their mineralogical composition. On the contrary, calcium sulphoaluminate-based blends show the total loss of binding capacity, especially when calcium sulphoaluminate cement is used with gypsum and Portland cement. Finally, the partial substitution of Portland cement with ultrafine fly ash strongly reduces the mass change and the strength loss of mortars submerged in 30 wt.% CaCl2 solutions due to the strong reduction of calcium hydroxide responsible for the calcium oxychloride formation in the cement paste.File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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