We prepared various blended cements from commercial ordinary portland cement by mixing D.D. residue instead of fine limestone powder, blast-furnace slag, expanded vermiculite powder, asbestos tailing and cal., and physical test were conducted on some properties of the prepared blended cements to investigate the adaptability of admixture for masonry cement.
From these experimental results, we prepared some masonry cements and made experiment on various physical properties beeing supposed to be important for masonry cement (setting time, water retention property, water absorption, compressive and bending strength, shrinkage, viscosity, hardness, crack, soundness).
While, we tried practical plastering works with these cements.
The result obtained are summarized as follows.
1) In comparison with commercial ordinary cement, the prepared masonry cement were considerably superior in workability, but were inferior in hardness.
2) The prepared masonry cements showed larger water absorption and shrinkage than commercial ordinary cement and fine net-work crack grow in the practical plastered walls.
3) As the prepared masonry cements were more excellent in sand carring capacity than ordinary cement, in case of using poor-mix mortar, crack were remarkably decreased.
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