Table of Contents
Chapter 1—Introduction
1.1—Introduction
Chapter 2—Definitions
2.1—Definitions
Chapter 3—General information
3.1—Sustainability
3.2—Admixture benefits
3.3—Specifications for admixtures
3.4—Sampling and testing
3.5—Cost effectiveness
3.6—Selection and evaluation
3.7—Proportioning and batching
Chapter 4—Air-entraining admixtures
4.1—Introduction
4.2—Materials for air entrainment
4.3—Selection and evaluation
4.4—Applications
4.5—Proportioning concrete
4.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
4.7—Effects on hardened concrete
4.8—Quality assurance
4.9—Batching
4.10—Storage
Chapter 5—Accelerating admixtures
5.1—Introduction
5.2—Materials
5.3—Selection and evaluation
5.4—Applications
5.5—Proportioning concrete
5.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
5.7—Effects on hardened concrete
5.8—Corrosion of metals
5.9—Quality assurance
5.10—Batching
5.11—Storage
Chapter 6—Water-reducing and set-retarding 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—Batching and quality control
6.10—Storage
Chapter 7—Admixtures for flowing concrete
7.1—Introduction
7.2—Materials
7.3—Selection and evaluation
7.4—Applications
7.5—Proportioning concrete
7.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
7.7—Effects on hardened concrete
7.8—Quality assurance
7.9—Storage
Chapter 8—Admixtures for self-consolidating concrete
8.1—Introduction
8.2—Materials for SCC admixtures
8.3—Selection and evaluation
8.4—Proportioning concrete
8.5—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
8.6—Effects on hardened concrete
8.7—Quality assurance
8.8—Batching
8.9—Storage
Chapter 9—Cold weather admixture systems
9.1—Introduction
9.2—Materials
9.3—Selection and evaluation
9.4—Proportioning concrete
9.5—Batching
9.6—Trial placement
9.7—Placing and finishing
9.8—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
9.9—Effects on hardened concrete
9.10—Quality assurance
9.11—Cost benefit
9.12—Storage
Chapter 10—Admixtures for very high-earlystrength concrete
10.1—Introduction
10.2—Materials for very high-early-strength concrete
10.3—Selection and evaluation
10.4—Proportioning concrete
10.5—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
10.6—Effects on hardened concrete
10.7—Quality assurance
10.8—Batching
10.9—Storage
Chapter 11—Extended set-control admixtures
11.1—Introduction
11.2—Materials
11.3—Selection and evaluation
11.4—Applications
11.5—Proportioning concrete
11.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
11.7—Effects on hardened concrete
11.8—Quality assurance
11.9—Batching
11.10— Storage
Chapter 12—Shrinkage-reducing admixtures
12.1—Introduction
12.2—Materials
12.3—Mode of action
12.4—Applications
12.5—Proportioning concrete
12.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
12.7—Effects on hardened concrete
12.8—Quality assurance
12.9—Storage
Chapter 13—Corrosion-inhibiting admixtures
13.1—Introduction
13.2—Materials
13.3—Selection and evaluation
13.4—Applications
13.5—Proportioning concrete
13.6—Effects on fresh and hardening concrete
13.7—Effects on hardened concrete
13.8—Quality assurance
13.9—Storage
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
14.7—Storage
Chapter 15—Permeability-reducing admixtures
15.1—Introduction
15.2—Materials
15.3—Selection and evaluation
15.4—Applications
15.5—Proportioning concrete
15.6—Effects on fresh and hardened concrete
15.7—Quality assurance
15.8—Batching
15.9—Storage
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—Rheology- and viscosity-modifying admixtures
16.6—Air-detraining admixtures
16.7—Storage
Chapter 17—References
17.1—Referenced standards and reports
17.2—Cited references