Microstructural characterisation of porous construction materials- major challenges

A.J. Klemm

doi:10.2495/MC090371

Microstructural characterisation of porous construction materials- major challenges

A.J. Klemm

Civil Engineering and Environmental Management

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the microstructural characterisation of porous construction materials. The attempt was made here to assess the existing methods of analysis of pore structure in cementitious materials, such as Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). Due to a number of simplifying assumptions and limitations on the use of individual methods, it is not possible to describe in a qualitative, reliable way the microstructure of porous construction materials. The way to achieve this goal is to employ a wide range of complementary techniques.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Materials Characterisation IV
Subtitle of host publication	Computational Methods and Experiments
Editors	A.A. Mammoli, C.A. Brebbia
Place of Publication	Southampton
Publisher	WIT Press
Pages	395-406
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781845643669
ISBN (Print)	9781845641894
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2495/MC090371
Publication status	Published - Jan 2009

Keywords

cementitious materials
built environment
building porous materials
construction materials
microstructural characterisation
MIP
DSC
limitation of methods

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Microstructural characterisation of porous construction materials- major challenges

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