Investigations on Water Vapor Adsorption–Desorption of Cementitious Materials and Its Induced Permeability under Isothermal Steady-State Flow
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 36, Issue 1
Abstract
adsorption-desorption of cementitious materials and their permeability is a vital indicator for their durability designs, which significantly affects the occurrences of corrosion, carbonization and freeze–thawing, but its quantitative characterization has yet to be investigated in depth. In this study, adsorption-desorption of cementitious materials with various ratios (0.35–0.55) and its induced permeability were investigated using a self-created cup apparatus under isothermal steady-state flow and compared with gas permeability by the modified Cembureau method. The results showed that the cementitious materials with a low ratio have stronger water-holding characteristics, and there is an obvious inflection point in the adsorption curve [i.e., relative humidity permeability measurement of cementitious materials was successfully carried out using a self-created cup apparatus, which is fundamentally an exponential function relationship to its gas permeability. The conversion relation is helpful to enhance the multimedium evaluations of durability for cementitious materials.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (No. 52208292), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LQ23E080018), National Natural Science Foundations of China (No. 52178237), National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2019YFC1904904), “Pioneer” and “Leading Goose” R&D Program of Zhejiang (No. 2023C03016), and State Key Laboratory of High Performance Civil Engineering Materials (2022CEM009). Also, this project was supported by Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Renewable Energy Infrastructure Construction Technology.
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Received: Feb 10, 2023
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