Menu for Internal Curing with Lightweight Aggregates

1)Calculate Lightweight Aggregates Needed for Internal Curing

Access (to print) a nomograph for this in: SI units English units

2)Estimation of Travel Distance of Internal Curing Water

3)Simulate Mixture Proportions to View Water Availability Distribution

4)View Water Availability Distribution Simulation Results

5)Learn more about FLAIR: Fine Lightweight Aggregates as Internal Reservoirs for the autogenous distribution of chemical admixtures

6)View presentation on internal curing made at 2006 Mid-Atlantic Region Quality Assurance Workshop

Link to Workshop homepage

7)View presentation on internal curing made at 2006 NIST/ACBM Computer Modeling Workshop

8)Internal Curing Bibliography

9)Direct Observation of Water Movement during Internal Curing Using X-ray Microtomography (pdf version)

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Image of simulation of protected paste volume in 3-D microstructure with pumice aggregates (in yellow).

X-ray images of water movement during internal curing. Red indicates drying and blue indicates wetting. Hydration time proceeds from left to right, top to bottom. Initial system consisted of a single LWA particle embedded in the center of a w/c=0.3 cement paste.