RT Journal Article
T1 Clinkering and hydration of belite-ye'elimite-alite cement
A1 Londono-Zuluaga, Diana
A1 Tobón, Jorge Iván
A1 García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel
A1 Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel
A1 Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los  Ángeles
K1 Cemento
AB Some belite-ye´elimite-ferrite (BYF) cements present low mechanical strengths mainly due to the slow reactivity of belite. A solution to this problem may be the activation of BYF clinkers by preparing them with a coexistence of alite and ye´elimite, which are known as belite-alite-ye´elimite (BAY) cements. The objective of this work was the preparation of BAY mortars that show higher mechanical strengths than BYF mortars. In order to attain this, the clinkering conditions to prepare BAY-clinker (2 kg) with the following mineralogical composition 60.6(2) wt% of belite, 14.3(2) wt% of alite and 10.4(1) wt% of ye´elimite were optimized (900ºC/30 min-1300ºC/15 min). The hydration mechanism of cement pastes (with 12 wt% of anhydrite and water-to-cement ratios of 0.4 and 0.5) was studied through laboratory X-ray powder diffraction and thermo-analyses. Finally, BAY mortars with higher compressive strengths than BYF-mortars were obtained (viz. 24.8 and 17.1 MPa for BAY and BYF mortars at 7 days of hydration, respectively).
PB Elsevier
SN 0958-9465
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/13619
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/13619
LA eng
NO This work is part of the PhD of D. Londono-Zuluaga funded by Colciencias and Enlaza Mundos program PhD grant. Funding from Junta de Andalucía (P11-FQM-7517) and Spanish MINECO (BIA2014-57658-C2-2-R, which is co-funded by FEDER, and BIA2014-57658-C2-1-R research grants) are acknowledged.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026