While a building was being constructed near my office, I used to often stare at the laborers' work whenever I got free time and noticed that apart from mixing the expected materials like sand, cement and stones, they are adding something more. I asked my colleague about it and he said they probably were adding superplasticizer. I did not know what is superplasticizer in concrete so I tried to learn more about it. Let me share with you what it is in brief here.
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What is a superplasticizer and its benefits?
A superplasticizer are chemical compounds added to the concrete making it approximately 30% less water content. Some benefits of using it in the concrete are:
Increases density
Improves bond strength
Increases volume stability
Reduces shrinkage cracking
Increase abrasion resistance.
What are some disadvantages of using superplasticizer in concrete?
There are a few disadvantages of using superplasticizer as well like:
Loss of workability due to rapid slump loss
Incompatibility of cement and superplasticizer
Excess superplasticizer can decrease in abrasion resistance and has no decisive effect and so on
I hope now you also know what is
superplasticizer in concrete
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What Is Superplasticizer?
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