Particle-based characterization of Ottawa sand: Shape, size, mineralogy, and elastic moduli

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2017-10-01

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Erdoğan, Sinan Turhan
Stutzman, P. E.
Garboczi, E. J.

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The success of computational materials science models for cement and concrete, at the micrometer-to-millimeter scale, is based on careful characterization of the two main starting materials - cement and aggregates. Concrete is a complex material, and models based on over-simplified chemical, geometrical, and topological assumptions have limits on the behavior they can realistically simulate. In this paper, a sample of Ottawa sand was carefully characterized, since this material is used in laboratories all around North America as the specified sand for many standard tests, including what is possibly the most highly used ASTM test of all in the field of cement-based materials, C-109, the mortar cube strength test. Particle shape and size distributions were acquired via a combination of X-ray tomography, spherical harmonic analysis, sieve analysis, microscopy and image analysis, and laser diffraction. Quantitative X-ray diffraction showed that the Ottawa sand used was very pure alpha-quartz with 1% amorphous content. Elastic moduli information at the particle level was obtained via instrumented nanoindentation. Polarized light microscopy showed that the particles that were indented were single crystals. Results for the Young's modulus, E, of Ottawa sand were E = 110 GPa +/- 5 GPa (assumed Poisson's ratio of 0.08), in agreement with other nanoindentation results for Ottawa sand in the literature but more than one standard deviation larger than the results obtained from isotropic averages of the elastic moduli tensor of a quartz, measured by ultrasonic and Brillouin scattering techniques and averaged in various ways. This kind of disagreement has been seen for other minerals as well as alpha-quartz, and indicates that nano indentation measurement of elastic moduli for particulate minerals used in cement and concrete and other applications must be used with some care. This characterization procedure can now be confidently employed for any class Of sand or gravel particle that is desired to be used in a three-dimensional mortar or concrete model.

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General Materials Science, Building and Construction

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34592

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CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2017.07.003

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Department of Civil Engineering, Article

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S. T. Erdoğan, P. E. Stutzman, and E. J. Garboczi, “Particle-based characterization of Ottawa sand: Shape, size, mineralogy, and elastic moduli,” CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES, pp. 36–44, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34592.