期刊
CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH
卷 103, 期 -, 页码 49-65出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2017.08.016
关键词
Microstructure [B]; Calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) [B]; Nanoindentation; EDX [B]; Micromechanics [C]
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2016-05985, 6636-438380-2013]
- Research Center on Concrete Infrastructure (CRIB)
Engineering cement-based composites requires a comprehensive understanding of the microstructure features governing macroscopic properties. This work aims to foster the latest chemo-mechanical technique to disclose the micro-mechanical properties of intimately intermixed phases. Considering a typical Portland cement paste as a study case, we compared the so-far developed nanoindentation analysis methods with a new automatic method coupling Nano-Indentation and Quantitative Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy (NI-QEDS). Besides evincing advantages and disadvantages of previous methods, the NI-QEDS analyses enabled distinguishing chemical phases having strongly overlapping mechanical properties. Results suggested the presence at the sub-micrometre scale of extra calcium, aluminum and sulfur into (or in the vicinity of) outer C-S-H. The quantitative chemistry allowed identifying the rare occurrence of nanoindentation volumes located on pure phases (e.g., inner C-S-H). Finally, NI-QEDS provided new knowledge on cement pastes' micro-chemo-visco-mechanical properties and showed to be a powerful tool for investigating even more heterogeneous systems.
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