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Effect of Curing Temperature on Mortar Based on Sustainable Concrete Material’s and Poly-Carboxylate Superplasticizer



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Ilham Aguida Bella1, Aissa Asroun1 and Nabil Bella2

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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2014.01.008

1. Faculty of Sciences, Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel Abbes 22000, Algeria
2. Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Bechar, Bechar 08000, Algeria

Nowadays, technologies in construction field have offered several kinds of chemical admixtures, which offer different behaviors at the fresh state of the batch and by consequence, it is resulted with different mechanical behaviors at the solid state of the mix. This study focused on the behavior of a new kind of admixture at fresh and solid states. Currently, the concrete material has become a very expensive material because the high price mostly of aggregates, representing the three quarters of the concrete components. By consequence, it costs money and on the other hand, it produces a lot of wastes. The main aspect which guides this study is to make a kind of concrete based mainly on local material and sustainable concrete material (SCM or waste material), which is one very abundant material in quality and quantity, under the current tendency the results obtained in this study summarize up the importance of the temperature during the development of the mechanical characteristics of mortar, mainly on compressive strength at age of 28 days. This is in the case of the addition of limestone crushed additive by percentage of substitution.

Mortar, crushed limestone additive, substitution, admixture, temperature.