A STUDY RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF INTERNAL CURING

CONCRETE (ICC).

Curing of concrete is the process of maintaining the proper moisture conditions to

promote optimum cement hydration immediately after placement. Proper moisture conditions
are critical because water is necessary for the hydration of cementations materials. With
insufficient water, the hydration will not proceed and the resulting concrete may not possess
the desirable strength and impermeability. The near surface region is particularly affected,
failing to provide a protective barrier against ingress of harmful species. As a result, adequate
curing is essential for concrete to obtain advanced structural and durability properties and
therefore, it is one of the most important requirements for optimum concrete performance in
any environment or application.
Curing techniques and curing duration significantly affect curing efficiency. Current
standards and specifications fail to indicate an optimum curing system for each application.
Consequently, many techniques have been used empirically to help prevent evaporation and
provide a good cure, including covering the newly placed concrete with water, or sheeting.
Furthermore, application of liquid membrane-forming curing compounds has been widely
used for concrete pavements. However, limited research has been done to investigate the
effectiveness of the various curing techniques and their application technologies.
Furthermore, no reliable standard testing method is available to evaluate the effectiveness of
curing at the field.
Practically good curing is not at all achievable in many cases due to the non-
availability of good quality water and also due to practical difficulties. Many researches are
concerned to identify effective self-curing agent. Therefore, many researchers are attracted
towards identifying the self-curing agent such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, and
polyethylene glycol. These agents which decreases surface tension of the water and
minimizes the water evaporation from concrete and hence increases the water retention
capacity of the concrete. Therefore it has been found that super absorbent polymers can be
used as self-curing agents in concrete. In the new millennium, concrete incorporating self-
curing agent in conventional cement mortar or concrete and also attempt has been made to
optimize the content of SAP for desirable results in terms of consistency, workability and
compressive strength. Hence an attempt has been made to use SAP as a self-curing agent.

1.2 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY:

  Study on the properties of SAP as additive in concrete.
 Investigation on the optimal dosage of SAP for different Water to binder ratio.
 Influence of SAP on fresh and harden properties of internal self-curing concrete.

1.3 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

Curing is one of the important critical activities in concreting, which may not carried
out properly and become one of the challenging for concreting to attain desirable properties.
The attempt has been made SAP as an internal curing agent in conventional concrete to fulfil
the basic properties of self-curing concrete. Hence we have attempted by using SAP as an
additive by assuming 100% curing.

1.4 METHODOLOGY OF WORK

The consideration of SAP as a additive in conventional concrete to fulfill the basic

requirements of curing by creating internal water reservoirs in a matrix of a concrete. The
influence of SAP based self-curing concrete on fresh and hardened properties are considered
in a present study. The performance internal void for exposure of different elevated
temperature are also been considered in the in present study.

1.5. CONCLUSION

The work is concentrated on addressing the rheological properties of internal curing concrete
for various grades and planned to study the impact on harden properties of concrete.

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