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    Gypsum regulates the setting time of cement and prevents flash setting. It makes Portland cement concrete workable for hours while also influencing grindability, sensitivity to storage, volume stability, and strength. The addition of gypsum allows clinker to be ground more easily than plain clinker. It prevents lump formation during concrete mixing and causes cement to start setting approximately one hour after water is added. Gypsum increases cement strength and prevents shrinkage up to a certain limit. The fineness of cement, measured by the Blaine method, largely determines the rate of hydration, setting, and hardening, with a finer cement providing faster strength development. Particle size distribution is also important for cement properties such as strength.

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    Gypsum regulates the setting time of cement and prevents flash setting. It makes Portland cement concrete workable for hours while also influencing grindability, sensitivity to storage, volume stability, and strength. The addition of gypsum allows clinker to be ground more easily than plain clinker. It prevents lump formation during concrete mixing and causes cement to start setting approximately one hour after water is added. Gypsum increases cement strength and prevents shrinkage up to a certain limit. The fineness of cement, measured by the Blaine method, largely determines the rate of hydration, setting, and hardening, with a finer cement providing faster strength development. Particle size distribution is also important for cement properties such as strength.

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    Role of Gypsum in Cement Grinding

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    Gypsum regulates the setting time of cement and prevents flash setting. It makes Portland cement concrete workable for hours while also influencing grindability, sensitivity to storage, volume stability, and strength. The addition of gypsum allows clinker to be ground more easily than plain clinker. It prevents lump formation during concrete mixing and causes cement to start setting approximately one hour after water is added. Gypsum increases cement strength and prevents shrinkage up to a certain limit. The fineness of cement, measured by the Blaine method, largely determines the rate of hydration, setting, and hardening, with a finer cement providing faster strength development. Particle size distribution is also important for cement properties such as strength.

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    Role of Gypsum in Cement


    • regulates setting time
    • prevents flash setting
    • makes Portland cement concrete workable for hours
    • has influence of
    grindability, sensitivity to storage, volume stability and strength

    IT`S AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT !

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    Effects of Gypsum on
    • Grindability of cement
    Clinker is ground more easily than plain clinker

    Fig. 10: Influence of calcium sulfate addition on the grindability in Portland


    clinker (equal grinding time
    Addition % Blaine Flowing behaviour
    0 3890 00
    Dihydrate 5.0 6750 0
    Gypsum A 5.0 5730 0
    Gypsum B 5.0 5440 0
    Hemihydrate 5.0 3700 000
    Anhydrite III 5.0 3570 000
    Anhydrite II 5.0 4180 00
    Water 0.5 5700 0
    Water 2.0 5120 00
    0 = good; 00 = moderate; 000 = bad

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    Effects of Gypsum on
    • Flowability and lump formation
    can cause blockages, because gypsum dehydrates and
    clinker hydrates and forms lumps

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    Effects of Gypsum on
    • Setting
    starts approx. 1 hours after adding water, otherwise
    immediatly

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    Effects of Gypsum
    on
    • Strength and volume stability
    increases strength and
    prevents shrinkages up to a
    certain limit

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    Specific Surface Area
    • largely determines the rate of
    hydration
    setting and hardening
    • higher fineness
    faster hardening and strength
    development
    • determined by Blaine method

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    Blaine Method
    • is calculated from the air permeability of a cement sample
    compacted under defined conditions
    • can mislead with blended Portland
    Cement or when clinker
    contains underbunt material

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    The relations between fineness of cement (Blaine) and
    concrete properties can be summarized as follows:
    • Increasing the fineness of cement, reduces the amount of bleeding
    in concrete
    • Increasing the fineness of cement above 3000, increases somewhat
    the water requirement of concrete. Compared to the influences other
    than cement on the water requirement of concrete, the influence of
    cement fineness is considerably smaller
    •The strength of concrete is influenced by the fineness of cement. The
    early compressive strength increases with an increase in cement
    fineness. The difference in compressive strength due to the difference
    in fineness of cement, is considerably smaller at 28 days and at later
    age
    •The fineness of cement influences the drying shrinkage of concrete.
    When the water content is increased because of fineness, the drying
    shrinkage is increased.

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    Particle Size Distribution
    • 2nd criteria determining the properties of a particular cement
    composition
    • important in particular with respect to strength of standard
    mortar
    • carried out by sieving or sedimentation methods

    • Residues on sieves of a definite size (32, 60, 90, 200 µm)


    • The percentage of particles of a definite class
    • The uniformity factor ”n” according to Rosin, Rammler and
    Sperling (RRS).

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    S - closed circuit grinding, n=1.04
    C - Open circuit Grinding, n=0.95
    R - Rapid hardening grinding, n=1.06

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