The Determination of Bound Water in Waste Phosphatic Clay Academic Article

abstract

• Phosphatic clay is a by-product of phosphate strip mining, particularly in Florida, USA. This waste material occupies about 100000 acres of land which could be utilized for other causes. Thus, its use as an alternating cementing material for the addition into the mixing matrix of cement paste and concrete to yield higher strength would be profitable for both materials involved. But the biggest drawback faced is that the phosphatic clay possesses high water holding capacity. The water is thus not available for mixing purposes when added to cement paste and concrete and is thus known as bound water. It is therefore essential to determine the amount of bound water to phosphatic clay which shall not be available for the hydration reaction of cement in cement paste and concrete.

authors

• Birgisson, Bjorn

published proceedings

• Research Letters in Materials Science

author list (cited authors)

• Dham, M., Birgisson, B., & Boyd, A. J.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Dham, Mahir||Birgisson, Bjorn||Boyd, Andrew J

publication date

• July 2009

publisher

• Hindawi  Publisher

published in

• Research Letters in Materials Science  Journal

keywords

• 33 Built Environment And Design
• 3302 Building
• 40 Engineering
• 4005 Civil Engineering

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1155/2009/854701

start page

• 1

end page

• 3

volume

• 2009

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/854701