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Electrochemical impedance interpretation of the carbonation behavior for fly ash-slag-cement materials

Biqin Dong, Qiwen Qiu, Jiaqi Xiang, Canjie Huang, Hongfang Sun, Feng Xing, Wei Liu

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Abstract

In this paper, a new electrochemical model was adopted to study the carbonation behavior of fly ash-slag-cement materials. For a range of time spans, the parameters fitted from the equivalent circuit model were obtained by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements. By means of triangular contour plots, correlations in the time evolution of isograms of both the model parameter and carbonation depth of fly ash-slag-cement materials were analyzed. The results indicate that carbonation may also play a major role in increasing the impedance arc and the model parameters. The amount of mineral admixture becomes decisive for the variations of impedance spectra, model parameter and carbonation depth. The experimental results show that carbonation depth of fly ash-slag-cement materials is quantitatively related to the increment of the model parameter (Rct1). On the contour map, the trends of carbonation depth are correlated to the variation in the increment of Rct1. As a result, it is possible to predict the carbonation depth of fly ash-slag-cement materials with any fly ash and/or slag contents. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)933-942
JournalConstruction and Building Materials
Volume93
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Jul 2015

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Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge financial support provided by the National Key Basic Research Program funded by MOST (Project No. 2011CB013600; Issue No. 2011CB013604) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51120185002/51272160/U1301241 ); Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. S2013010013089 ) and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Civil Engineering Materials , Nanjing, P.R. China.

Research Keywords

  • Carbonation
  • Carbonation depth prediction
  • Electrochemical impedance
  • Equivalent circuit model
  • Fly ash-slag-cement materials
  • Triangular contour

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