Bj. Christensen et al., COMPARISON OF MEASURED AND CALCULATED PERMEABILITIES FOR HARDENED CEMENT PASTES, Cement and concrete research, 26(9), 1996, pp. 1325-1334
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26
Categorie Soggetti
Construcion & Building Technology","Material Science
The experimental and calculated permeabilities of hardened cement past
es were compared. Experimental data for water permeability was obtaine
d from the work of Nyame and Illston in 1980 on neat pastes with water
-to-cement ratios (w/c) between 0.23 and 1.0. Mercury intrusion porosi
metry (MIP) and impedance spectroscopy (IS) measurements were performe
d on equivalently prepared specimens. Then the Katz-Thompson relation
was used to calculate permeability. Calculated results track well with
experimental data as a function of time, with the experimental value
of permeability slightly higher at most times. The correlation between
experimental and calculated permeabilities, at all times, are within
1.5 orders of magnitude. The largest differences occurred at late time
s for the samples with low w/c ratio. This calculated permeability is
quick, relatively simple and appears to give reasonable results when c
ompared to conventional water intrusion methods.