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Admixture for Concrete

Definition: a material other than water, aggregates, cementitious materials, and fiber reinforcement, used as an ingredient of a cementitious mixture to modify its freshly mixed, setting, or hardened properties and that is added to the batch before or during its mixing.- ACI Concrete Terminology


Admixtures are materials added to concrete before or during mixing. Most admixtures are chemicals that change some property of the fresh or hardened concrete. Water, aggregates, cementitious materials (pozzolans and hydraulic cements [fly ash, silica fume, slag cement]), and fiber reinforcement are not considered admixtures.

Types of chemical admixtures include: air-entraining admixtures; accelerating admixtures; retarding admixtures; water-reducing admixtures (normal and mid-range); high-range water-reducing admixtures; and special-purpose admixtures such as pigments, corrosion inhibitors, shrinkage reducers, admixtures for producing flowing concrete, cold-weather admixtures, and pumping aids.

Practice oriented papers and articles ON ADMIXTURE FOR CONCRETE

Study on Properties and Mechanism of Liquid Alkali Free Set Accelerating Admixture for Sprayed Concrete

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

On the Mechanism of Using Carbon Dioxide as a Beneficial Concrete Admixture

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

Overview of Defoaming Technologies for Polycarboxylate-Based Superplasticizers

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

Alternative Setting Retarders for Portland Cement Clinker

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

Definition of a PCE Family that Increases Performances when a Workability Retention Agent (WRA) is Added

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

Influence of Non-adsorbed Polymers on Fluidity of Cement Paste

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

Development of Ultra-Low Temperature Anti-Freezing Pumping Admixture

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

CSA-Based Mortars Manufactured with Tartaric Acid-Based Retarder

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

Advances in Admixtures and In-Transit Concrete Management Systems for Sustainable Construction

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

Natural Rubber Latex as Admixture for Polymer Concrete

Publication: Special Publication
Date: 9/26/2018

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