Inorganic Admixtures for Preventing Conversion Phenomena in High-Alumina Cements

Summary

Professor Sant and colleagues have developed a method to prevent the strength loss caused by increased porosity seen in high alumina cement systems. The addition of inorganic admixtures serves to suppress hydrogarnet formation at the expense of more stable AFm phases. The result is high-alumina cement with increased volume stability and corrosion resistance.

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