Surface Roughness and Porosity of Hydrated Cement Pastes

Authors

  • T. Ficker
  • D. Martišek
  • H. M. Jennings

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/1374

Keywords:

roughness analysis, fracture surfaces, cement-based materials, confocal microscopy

Abstract

. Seventy-eight graphs were plotted to describe and analyze the dependences of the height and roughness irregularities on the water-to-cement ratio and on the porosity of the cement hydrates. The results showed unambiguously that the water-to-cement ratio or equivalently the porosity of the specimens has a decisive influence on the irregularities of the fracture surfaces of this material. The experimental results indicated the possibility that the porosity or the value of the water-to-cement ratio might be inferred from the height irregularities of the fracture surfaces. It was hypothesized that there may be a similarly strong correlation between porosity and surface irregularity, on the one hand, and some other highly porous solids, on the other, and thus the same possibility to infer porosity from the surfaces of their fracture remnants.

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Author Biographies

  • T. Ficker
  • D. Martišek
  • H. M. Jennings

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Published

2011-01-03

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 3 (2011)

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How to Cite

Ficker, T., Martišek, D., & Jennings, H. M. (2011). Surface Roughness and Porosity of Hydrated Cement Pastes. Acta Polytechnica, 51(3). https://doi.org/10.14311/1374