Large pours

Expansire cements are hydrauHc cements designed to expand rather than shrink on curing, as do standard Pordand cements. They are defined in ASTM C845 and are used to control and reduce shrinkage cracks in large poured-in place stmctures. 

Fig. 7.10 Water-reducing admixtures can be used to reduce cement contents whilst maintaining the required compressive strength. In large pours reduced temperature rise is beneficial in minimizing the risk of cracking due to thermal expansion under restrained condition (Browne [24]).

In large pours where construction joints can be reduced thus speeding up construction. 

Browne, R.D. (1973). Proceedings of the Conference on Large Pours for RC Structures, University of Birmingham, 44-8. 

Pours requiring more than one container must be carefully preplanned. The material must all be weighed out into separate containers and heated to the correct temperature. The auxiliary materials must be added to the correct containers and preblended. In large pours, it is very important to add the... 

Retarders enable setting time to be extended thereby preventing the formation of cold joints in large pours. Additionally, water-reducing retarders allow a reduction in cement content with a consequent reduction in maximum temperature rise. 

The water-reducing-retarding admixtures are used for avoiding cold joints and facilitating large pours. They are used particularly in hot weathering operations. These admixtures should increase the initial set time by at least one hour, with a maximum by 3 A hours. The compressive strength should be at least 110% of the control at 3, 7, and 28 days. 

One remaining possibility that is less costly from an energy point of view but needs to be carefully controlled is to incorporate additives called flow improvers. These materials favor the dispersion of the paraffin crystals and in doing so prevent them from forming the large networks which cause the filter plugging. The conventional flow improvers essentially change the CFPP and pour point, but not the cloud point. They are usually copolymers, produced, for example, from ethylene and vinyl acetate monomers ... 

Figure 5.9 shows an example of the efficiency of these products. The reductions of CFPP and pour point can easily attain 6 to 12°C for concentrations between 200 and 600 ppm by weight. The treatment cost is relatively low, on the order of a few hundredths of a Franc per liter of diesel fuel. In practice, a diesel fuel containing a flow improver is recognized by the large difference (more than 10°C) between the cloud point and the CFPP. 

Large range of service temperatures Constant viscosity (viscosity index) Pour point, thermal stability... 

Certain calibrated orifice instruments (Engler-type) provide viscosity measurements at temperature lower than pour point. This is possible because the apparatus agitates the material to the point where large crystals are prevented from forming whereas in other methods, the sample pour point is measured without agitation. 

Although lubricant base stocks have been subjected to dewaxing processes, they still contain large amounts of paraffins that result in a high pour point for the oil. In the paragraph on the cold behavior of diesel fuels, additives were mentioned that modify the paraffin crystalline system and oppose the precipitation of solids. 

Slurry or slip casting provides a relatively inexpensive way to fabricate unifonn-thickness, thin-wall, or large cross section shapes [4o, 44, 45, 46, 42 aiid 48]. For slip casting, a slurry is first poured into a porous mould. Capillary suction then draws the liquid from the slurry to fonn a higher solids content, close-packed, leather-hard cast on the inner surface of the mould. In a fixed time, a given wall thickness is fonned, after which the excess slurry is drained. 

After the 45 minutes heating, pour the contents of the flask into a large excess of cold water (about 300 ml.), in which the nitrobenzene, being heavier than water, sinks to the bottom. Stir the mixture vigorously in order to wash out as much acid as... 

Place 2 1 ml. (measured from a micro-burette) of nitro-benzene and 5 g. of granulated tin in a 150 ml. round-bottomed flask fitted with a small reflux water-condenser. (A large flask is employed because the mixture when subsequently boiled may bump violently.) Pour 10 ml. of cone. HCl down the condenser on this scale the reaction is not sufficiently vigorous to get out of control. Heat over a gauze for 15 minutes. Cool the flask and add a solution of 7 5 8- of NaOH in 10 ml. of water to redissolve the initial precipitate. Add about... 

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