Hardened cementitious materials consist of various kinds of pores, like gel pores, capillary pores, air voids and so on, whose size and shape distribution is often called pore structure. However, the connection between these pores, which creates Ink-bottle relation and dominate drying shrinkage or ion absorption. Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) test is one of the widely used methods to study the pore structure of cementitious materials. However, it is well known that the evaluation of pore structure by MIP is not totally accurate. The main reasons are the ink-bottle effect and the destruction of pores due to excessive high pressure.
A unique method that can determine volumes of continuative pore and discontinuative pore structure is proposed. Furthermore, according to this method, a suitable maximum intrusion pressure can be selected. In this study, boundary pore between capillary and gel pores is found using the results of the proposed method. [This abstract is not included in the PDF]
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