Hydration and dimensional stability of calcium aluminate cement based systems

Early-Age Rheology and Hydration Control of Ternary Binders for 3d Printing Applications

“…In this paper, we focus on the former. Mixes outside of these zones show various shortcomings as for example excessive and uncontrolled expansion [38,39]. OPC-rich systems could be binary or ternary depending on whether additional calcium sulfate is present or not.…”

Early-Age Hydration Mechanism of Ternary Binders: Quantitative Relation between Microstructure Evolution and Strength Build-Up

“…Such calcium aluminate-based systems are commonly used as accelerators for various applications such as selflevelling mortar and tile adhesive. There are some studies in literature which talk about the hydration mechanisms of such systems [14][15][16], however, those studies do not focus in the first hour of acceleration. Nehring et al reported that ettringite is the major hydration product that forms in the first few hours.…”