Decorative and Finishing Powder-Activated Concretes with a Granular Surface Texture

It is shown that in recent years, self-compacting concrete mixtures, characterized by high workability without the use of vibration, have been widely used in domestic and world practice. The results of a study on the selection of compositions of decorative and finishing powder-activated concretes with a granular surface texture according to rheological properties are presented. The structural and rheotechnological parameters of powder-activated concretes are calculated. It is shown that from the point of view of rheotechnological indicators, the compositions of self-compacting concretes with a cone draft of 27.4 and 28.5 cm are the most qualitative, which corresponds to the American standard SF2. There is an obvious regularity in achieving close values of conditional rheological matrices (И^ВД_Пт, И_Пз^ВДПт) equal to 1.67–1.97 and 1.78–1.98, respectively, indicating that the volume content of the water-dispersed fine-grained suspension component for self-compacting powder-activated sand concretes should be in the range of 60%. Only at a high content of water-dispersed-fine-grained suspension will absolute self-spreading be ensured. From the obtained values of the conditional rheological criteria of powder-activated concretes, it follows that all of them are much greater than one and characterize a significant excess of the volumes of rheological matrices over the volumes of fine-grained, coarse-grained components that fit into them with large separation of particles and grains. As a result of the studies on strength and frost resistance, high indicators of strength and frost resistance of decorative powder-activated concretes with a granular surface texture were revealed.

V.T. EROFEEV¹, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
I.N. MAKSIMOVA², Candidate of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.),
O.V. TARAKANOV², Doctor of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
Ya.A. SANYAGINA¹, Engineer (postgraduate) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
I.V. EROFEEVA¹, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
O.V. SUZDALTSEV³, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

¹ National Research N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University (68, Bolshevistskaya Street, Saransk, Republic of Mordovia, 30005, Russian Federation)
² Penza State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (28, Germana Titova Street, Penza, 440028, Russian Federation)
³ Asia Cement LLC (20Б/34, Bakunina/Plekhanova Street, Penza, 440000, Russian Federation)

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