Influence of Air Temperature on the Performance of Different Water-Reducing Admixtures with Respect to the Properties of Fresh and Hardened Mortar.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Civil Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 136768, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/136768 Research Article Influence of Air Temperature on the Performance of Different Water-Reducing Admixtures with Respect to the Properties of Fresh and Hardened Mortar 1 ˆ 1 2 Wilson Ricardo Leal Silva, Luiz Roberto Prudencio Jr., Alexandre Lima Oliveira, Gabriela Damo,1 and Eduardo Tochetto1 1 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universit´ario, Eng.Civil, Bl. B/s.114,Florian´opolis, Brazil 2 Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Avenida Mauro Ramos 950, 88020-300 Florian´opolis, Brazil Correspondence should be addressed to Wilson Ricardo Leal Silva, wilsonecv@ Received 24 May 2010; Revised 4 September 2010; Accepted 11 October 2010 Academic Editor: K. Soudki Copyright © 2010 Wilson Ricardo Leal Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The performance of water-reducing admixtures used in concrete is affected by the weather conditions to which the concrete mixture is exposed. The most used WRAs are lignosulfonate, naphthalene, and polycarboxylate. However, they react differently to weather conditions, especially to air temperature. Therefore, it can be useful to evaluate how temperature affects admixture performance. In this study, the performance of three admixtures (naphthalene, lignosulfonate, and polycarboxylate) was evaluated at 15, 25, and 35◦C by means of the flow table test, mixture a