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Properties of Fresh and Hardened Concrete Containing Supplementary Cementitious Materials

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Abstract

Ternary binders have become used more frequently for several reasons. In some cases, such as combining a rapidly reactive SCM such as silica fume with a more slowly reactive SCM such as fly ash or slag, the use of ternary binders can provide benefits for both early-age and later-age properties and durability of concrete. In other cases, high-alkali pozzolans have been combined with slag to both accelerate the slag hydration and bind the alkalis from the pozzolan. As well, two SCMs may be combined to improve economy of the concrete mixture. This chapter describes properties of various ternary binders.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George St, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A4, Canada

    R. Doug Hooton

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Building Research Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Semion Zhutovsky

  3. INSA de Rennes, GCU/LGCGM, 20 Avenue des Buttes de Coësmes, CS 70839, 35043, Rennes Cedex, France

    Siham Kamali-Bernard

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  1. Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research, Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  2. School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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  3. Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research, Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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Doug Hooton, R., Zhutovsky, S., Kamali-Bernard, S. (2018). Ternary Blends. In: De Belie, N., Soutsos, M., Gruyaert, E. (eds) Properties of Fresh and Hardened Concrete Containing Supplementary Cementitious Materials. RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70606-1_9

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