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Engineering properties of geopolymer prepared by mild chemical activation of ground granulated blast furnace slag

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Title Engineering properties of geopolymer prepared by mild chemical activation of ground granulated blast furnace slag
 
Creator Singh, Ashita
Bhadauria, Sudhir Singh
Mudgal, Manish
Kushwah, Suresh Singh
 
Subject Geopolymer
Fly ash
Ground granulated blast furnace slag
 
Description 996-1008
In this research article engineering properties of solely ground granulated blast furnace (GGBS) slag geopolymers have been investigated at varying proportions of alkali activators. Combination of sodium hydroxide (SH) and sodium meta silicate (SMS) powder has been used as alkali activators. Consistency, setting time and compressive strength have been determined at different concentration of SH and ratio of SMS/SH for GGBS geopolymer. Maximum compressive strength of 87.76 MPa has been achieved at 2 molar concentration of SH and SMS/SH = 2.0 after 28 days of curing at ambient temperature. The consistency of mix attaining maximum compressive strength is 27.5%. The initial and final setting time of 55 and 105 minutes has been observed. The soundness of geopolymer paste is within permissible limits. The micro-structural analysis of GGBS and geopolymer paste has been performed by XRD, FTIR, FESEM and EDAX. The co-existence of calcium silicate hydrate gel and geopolymeric gel may be responsible for achieving high compressive strength at low concentration of activators under ambient temperature curing.
 
Date 2021-02-05T06:23:25Z
2021-02-05T06:23:25Z
2020-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1017 (Online); 0971-4588 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/56161
 
Language en_US
 
Rights <img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJEMS Vol.27(5) [October 2020]