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    Improvement of rheological behaviour of cement pastes by incorporating metakaolin
    (2010) Mansour, M.S.; Abadlia, Mohamed Tahar; Bekkour, K.; Messaoudene, I.
    An experimental rheological investigation was conducted to evaluate the performance of Algerian metakaolin MK on cement pastes. In the present work, several rheological tests were carried out at 20°C, by using the stress controlled rheometer AR2000, on the fresh cement pastes incorporating 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% of MK. Effect of metakaolin on the rheological behaviour of cement pastes were discussed. Rheological parameters such as viscosity, compliance, loss and storage shear modulus are evaluated by means of rheological techniques of both flow and creep/recovery tests (static mode) and oscillatory test (dynamic mode). Shear moduli allow to give information on the evolution of the paste structure related to practically interesting problems such as workability. The results obtained have shown that MK improves the flowability and exhibits viscous rheological behaviour of cement pastes over elastic behaviour of control paste (0%MK). Moreover, the creep/recovery test show that the addition of MK exhibits a behaviour of viscoelastic liquid of cement pastes compared to a viscoelastic solid behaviour of control paste. The MK acts as filler and controls rheology
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    Metakaolin as a pozzolan for high-performance mortar = Metakaolin jako dodatek pucolanowy modyfikuja{ogonek}cy właściwości zapraw
    (2012) Mansour, M.S.; Abadlia, Mohamed Tahar; Janberthie, R.; Messaoudene, I.
    Cement mortars were produced in which 10% of Portland cement was replaced by metakaolin. The physical properties i.e. shrinkage and mechanical strength of the mortar were studied. The results show that the metakaolin slows cement hydration, decreases the conductivity and the pH of cement suspensions and increases the setting time of cement paste. Due to these changes the plastic viscosity and workability of mix concrete are enhanced. The compressive strength of mortar with metakaolin addition is close to the strength of reference mortar after 28 days, but early strength is lower. Moreover, the metakaolin addition is increasing shrinkage in relation to the reference mortar