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Reduction of concrete permeability using admixtures or surface treatments

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The durability assurance in reinforced concrete is necessary during the design conception and mix design as a preventive measure. Permeability in cementitious materials is a crucial durability indicator that can be influenced by many factors, from capillary porosity to cracks. Under those circumstances, it might be helpful to have concrete with the ability to reduce permeability. In this paper, the effectiveness of incorporating a crystalline admixture, both as an admixture and surface treatment, through characterisation tests, durability tests, and self-healing analyses. A concrete with silica fume as an admixture was also produced for comparison to the use of crystalline admixture (CA). The silica fume showed more efficiency in all assessed properties relative to both the reference and CA for condition with limited water availability. Crystalline admixture is also beneficial over reference concrete when used as an admixture, increasing the compressive strength and decreasing the ingress of chloride and carbon dioxide. The concrete with surface treatment had similar behaviour of reference concrete. Additionally, healing products from the use of crystalline admixture take the form of a needle shape in concrete.

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The authors would like to thank the LNNano for technical support during electron microscopy work (proposal SEM 24390) and the Laboratório Materiais e Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído (LAMTAC/UFRGS) for technical support during all analysis.

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Participation of Brazilian authors was sponsored by CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) through the research fellowships PQ 310956/2016–1 and PQ 311295/2019–3.

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Cappellesso, V.G., Petry, N.d., Longhi, M.A. et al. Reduction of concrete permeability using admixtures or surface treatments. J Build Rehabil 7, 38 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41024-022-00176-z

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41024-022-00176-z

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