Special Inorganic Cements

Special Inorganic Cements Modern Concrete Technology Series Series Editors Arnon Bentur National Building Research Institute Technion—Israel Institute of Technology Technion City Haifa 32 000 Israel Sydney Mindess Department of Civil Engineering University of British Columbia 2324 Main Mall Vancouver British Columbia Canada V6T 1W5 1. Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composites A.Bentur and S.Mindess 2. Concrete in the Marine Environment P.K Mehta 3. Concrete in Hot Environments I.Soroka 4. Durability of Concrete in Cold Environments M.Pigeon and R.Pleau 5. High-Performance Concrete P.-C.Aïtcin 6. Steel Corrosion in Concrete Fundamentals and civil engineering practice A.Bentur, S.Diamond and N.Berke 7. Optimization Methods for Material Design of Cement-based Composites Edited by A.Brandt 8. Special Inorganic Cements I.Odler 9. Concrete Mixture Proportioning F.de Larrard 10. Permeability and Poresize in Cement-based Materials K.Aligizaki and P.D.Cady (forthcoming) 11. Sulfate Attack on Concrete J.P.Skalny, P.W.Brown, V.Johansen and J.Marchand (Forthcoming) 12. Fundamentals of Durable Reinforced Concrete M.G.Richardson (forthcoming) Special Inorganic Cements Ivan Odler London and New York First published 2000 by E & FN Spon 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by E & FN Spon 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 E & FN Spon is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk”. © 2000 Ivan Odler All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors that may be made. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Odler, Ivan, 1930– Special inorganic cements/Ivan Odler. p. cm.—(Modern concrete technology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-419-22790-3 (alk. paper) 1. Cement. 2. Inorganic compounds. 3. Portland cement. I. Title. II. Series: Modern concrete technology series (E & F.N. Spon); 8. TA434.035 2000 620.1′35–dc21 99–38936 CIP ISBN 0-203-30211-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-34175-9 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-419-22790-3 (Print Edition) To my wife Contents Introductory remarks Glossary 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 General characteristics of inorganic cements Special Portland cements Reactive forms of dicalcium silicate and belite cements Cements containing calcium sulfoaluminate Cements containing the phases C12A7 or C11A7.CaF2 Cements containing the alinite phase Composite cements: general considerations Cements containing ground granu