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 Admixture for Concrete

Definisi dari bahan tambahan (admixture) untuk

beton menurut ASTM-C125 adalah:

“Material selain air, agregat, dan semen hidrolik

yang digunakan sebagai bahan campuran beton
atau mortar dan ditambahkan dengan segera
kedalam campuran sebelum atau pada saat proses
pencampuran”.

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Some broad categories of admixtures:
1. Air-entraining agents (ASTM C260) are added primarily to
improve the frost resistance of concrete.
2. Chemical admixtures (ASTM C494 and BS 5075) are water-
soluble compounds added primarily to control setting and
early hardening of fresh concrete or to reduce its water
requirements.
3. Mineral admixtures are finely divided solids added to
concrete to improve its workability, its durability, or to
provide additional cementing properties. Slag and
pozzolans are important categories of mineral.
4. Miscellaneous admixtures includes all those materials that
do not come under one of the foregoing categories, many of
which have been developed for special applications.

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 Admixtures
Two basic types of admixtures are:
• Mineral Admixtures (Fly ash, Silica fume, and slags)
Mineral admixtures are usually added to concrete in larger
amounts to enhance the workability of fresh concrete; to
improve resistance of concrete to thermal cracking, alkali-
aggregate expansion, and sulfate attack; and to enable a
reduction in cement content
• Chemical Admixtures (Water reducing, Accelerating,
Superplasticizers)
Chemical admixtures are added to concrete in very small
amounts mainly for the entrainment of air, reduction of water or
cement content, plasticization of fresh concrete mixtures, or
control of setting time.

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