Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1—INTRODUCTION
1.1—Introduction
1.2—Scope
CHAPTER 2—DEFINITIONS
2.1—Definitions
CHAPTER 3—GENERAL
3.1—Admixture benefits
3.2—Specifications for admixtures
3.3—Sampling and testing
3.4—Cost effectiveness
3.5—Selection and evaluation
3.6—Proportioning and batching
3.7—Batching order for adding chemical admixtures in concrete
3.8—Chapter reference chart
CHAPTER 4—SUSTAINABILITY
4.1—Sustainability of chemical admixtures
4.2—Use of chemical admixtures in sustainable construction
CHAPTER 5—AIR-ENTRAINING ADMIXTURES
5.1—Introduction
5.2—Materials for air entrainment
5.3—Mechanism of entrained air
5.4—Selection and evaluation
5.5—Applications
5.6—Dosage
5.7—Proportioning concrete
5.8—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
5.9—Effects on hardened concrete
5.10—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 6—NORMAL, MID-, AND HIGH-RANGE WATER-REDUCING ADMIXTURES
6.1—Introduction
6.2—Materials
6.3—Selection and evaluation
6.4—Applications
6.5—Dosage
6.6—Proportioning concrete
6.7—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
6.8—Effects on hardened concrete
6.9—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 7—ACCELERATING ADMIXTURES
7.1—Introduction
7.2—Materials
7.3—Selection and evaluation
7.4—Applications
7.5—Dosage and proportioning concrete
7.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
7.7—Effects on hardened concrete
7.8—Corrosion of metals
7.9—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 8—SET-RETARDING ADMIXTURES
8.1—Introduction
8.2—Materials
8.3—Selection and evaluation
8.4—Applications
8.5—Dosage
8.6—Proportioning concrete
8.7—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
8.8—Effects on hardened concrete
8.9—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 9—EXTENDED SET-CONTROL ADMIXTURES
9.1—Introduction
9.2—Materials
9.3—Selection and evaluation
9.4—Applications
9.5—Dosage and proportioning concrete
9.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
9.7—Effects on hardened concrete
9.8—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 10—WORKABILITY-RETAINING ADMIXTURES
10.1—Introduction
10.2—Materials
10.3—Dosage and effect on fresh and hardened concrete
10.4—Applications
10.5—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 11—VISCOSITY- AND RHEOLOGY-MODIFYING ADMIXTURES
11.1—Introduction
11.2—Materials
11.3—Selection and evaluation
11.4—Applications
11.5—Dosage and proportioning concrete
11.6—Effects of fresh and hardened concrete
11.7—Anti-washout admixtures
11.8—Rheology-modifying admixtures
11.9—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 12—SHRINKAGE-REDUCING AND SHRINKAGE-COMPENSATING ADMIXTURES
12.1—Introduction
12.2—Materials
12.3—Mode of action
12.4—Applications
12.5—Dosage and proportioning concrete
12.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
12.7—Effects on hardened concrete
12.8—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 13—CORROSION-INHIBITING ADMIXTURES
13.1—Introduction
13.2—Materials
13.3—Selection and evaluation
13.4—Applications
13.5—Dosage and proportioning concrete
13.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
13.7—Effects on hardened concrete
13.8—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 14—LITHIUM ADMIXTURES TO REDUCE DELETERIOUS EXPANSION FROM ALKALI-SILICA REACTION
14.1—Introduction
14.2—Materials
14.3—Mechanism
14.4—Dosage
14.5—Effects on concrete properties
14.6—Performance tests for effectiveness
14.6—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 15—PERMEABILITY-REDUCING ADMIXTURES
15.1—Introduction
15.2—Materials
15.3—Selection and evaluation
15.4—Applications
15.5—Dosage and proportioning concrete
15.6—Effects on fresh and hardened properties
15.7—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 16—MISCELLANEOUS ADMIXTURES
16.1—Bonding admixtures
16.2—Coloring admixtures
16.3—Flocculating admixtures
16.4—Fungicidal, germicidal, and insecticidal admixtures
16.5—Air-detraining admixtures
16.6—Expansive/gas forming admixtures
16.7—Admixtures for cellular concrete/flowable fill
16.8—Shotcrete admixtures
16.9—Admixtures for manufactured concrete products
CHAPTER 17—ADMIXTURES FOR FLOWING CONCRETE
17.1—Introduction
17.2—Materials
17.3—Selection and evaluation
17.4—Applications
17.5—Proportioning concrete
17.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
17.7—Effects on hardened concrete
17.8—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 18—ADMIXTURES FOR SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE (SCC)
18.1—Introduction
18.2—Materials for self-consolidating concrete admixtures
18.3—Selection and evaluation
18.4—Proportioning concrete
18.5—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
18.6—Effects on hardened concrete
18.7—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 19—ADMIXTURES FOR VERY COLD WEATHER CONCRETE
19.1—Introduction
19.2—Materials
19.3—Selection and evaluation
19.4—Proportioning concrete
19.5—Batching
19.6—Trial placement
19.7—Placing and finishing
19.8—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
19.9—Effects on hardened concrete
19.10—Quality assurance
19.11—Cost benefit
CHAPTER 20—ADMIXTURES FOR VERY-HIGH-EARLY-STRENGTH CONCRETE
20.1—Introduction
20.2—Materials for very-high-early-strength concrete
20.3—Selection and evaluation
20.4—Proportioning concrete
20.5—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
20.6—Effects on hardened concrete
20.7—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 21—ADMIXTURES FOR PERVIOUS CONCRETE
21.1—Introduction
21.2—Materials
21.3—Selection and evaluation
21.4—Applications
21.5—Proportioning
21.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
21.7—Effects on hardened concrete
21.8—Quality assurance and batching
CHAPTER 22—REFERENCES
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