TY - BOOK AU - Prajapati, Rinkal (UC3614) AU - Thaker, Parth (Guide) TI - Investigation of cement paste characteristics with different admixtures (Soft copy is also available) U1 - B TH-0809 PY - 2019/// N1 - CONTENTS TABLE INDEX vii FIGURE INDEX ix CHART INDEX xi EQUATION INDEX xii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. AREA OF STUDY 1 1.2. BACKGROUND: 1 1.2.1. CEMENT PASTE 2 1.2.2. PROERTIES OF CEMENT PASTE: 3 1.3. NEED FOR THE STUDY 3 1.4. OBJECTIVES 4 1.5. SCOPE THE WORK: 4 1.6. METHODOLOGY OF STUDY 4 1.7. THESIS SCHEDULE: 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1. CHAPTER OUTLINE 6 2.2. DETAILED LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.3. CONCISE LITERATURE REVIEW 10 CHAPTER 3: EXPERIMENTAL MATERIAL TESTING 11 3.1. INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS 11 3.1.1. CEMENT: 11 3.1.2. MINERAL ADMIXTURE (FLYASH) 12 3.1.3. MINERAL ADMIXTURE (SLAG) 14 3.1.4. DETAILS OF SUPER-PLASTICIZER: 15 CHAPTER 4: WORK PROGRAMME: 16 4.1. EXPERIMENTAL WORK PROGRAMME: 16 4.1.1. TOTAL NUMBER OF MIX: 18 4.1.2. MIX DESCRIPTION: 18 4.2. WORK PLAN 20 4.2.1. PILOT STUDY 20 4.2.2. COMPATIBILITY STUDY BETWEEN CEMENT AND SP 24 4.2.3. WORKABILITY TEST: 29 4.2.4. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE: 30 CHAPTER 5: TEST RESULTS AND ANALYSIS 38 5.1. THE INFLUENCE OF MIXING PROTOCOLS ON MINI SLUMP CONE TEST: 38 5.2. GUIDELINES FOR OBTAINING OPTIMUM DOSAGE OF SUPER-PLASTICIZER: 39 5.3. STUDY OF EFFECT OF SUPER-PLASTICIZER ON MIX FOR VARIOUS TESTS 40 5.3.1. STUDY OF RESULTS OF MINI SLUMP CONE TEST WITH 0% REPLACEMENT OF FLYASH AND SLAG AND WITH ADDITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIFIED DOSAGE OF SP: 40 5.3.2. STUDY OF RESULTS OF MINI SLUMP CONE TEST WITH 25%, 35%, 50% AND 75% REPLACEMENT OF FLYASH AND WITH ADDITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIFIED DOSAGE OF SP 41 5.3.3. STUDY OF RESULTS OF MINI SLUMP CONE TEST WITH 25%, 35%, 50% AND 75% REPLACEMENT OF SLAG AND WITH ADDITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIFIED DOSAGE OF SP 41 5.3.4. STUDY OF RESULTS OF MINI FLOW TABLE TEST WITH 0% REPLACEMENT OF FLYASH AND SLAG AND WITH ADDITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIFIED DOSAGE OF SP 42 5.3.5. STUDY OF RESULTS OF MARSH CONE TABLE TEST WITH 0% REPLACEMENT OF FLYASH AND SLAG AND WITH ADDITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIFIED DOSAGE OF SP: 43 5.4. STUDY OF EFFECT OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF REPLACEMENT OF FLYASH: 43 5.5. STUDY OF EFFECT OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF REPLACEMENT OF SLAG 44 5.6. STUDY OF COMPARISION OF FLYASH AND SLAG AT 0.3 W/B RATIO AND 0.5 W/B RATIO: 44 5.7. DETERMINATION OF THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY-YIELD STRESS 45 5.8. CLASSIFICATION OF MIX: 46 ER -