Quantitative assessment of alkali silica reaction potential of quartz-rich aggregates: comparison of chemical test and accelerated mortar bar test improved by SEM-PIA

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10064-015-0812-z" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10064-015-0812-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10064-015-0812-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10064-015-0812-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quantitative assessment of alkali silica reaction potential of quartz-rich aggregates: comparison of chemical test and accelerated mortar bar test improved by SEM-PIA

Original language description

The alkali silica reaction (ASR), which originates in highly alkaline conditions in concrete where reactive forms of silica are available, causes serious damage to concrete structures. The ASR potential of various quartz-rich aggregates (pegmatite quartz, quartzite, quartz meta-greywacke, and chert) was quantified using accelerated mortar bar test (AMBT), chemical test (CT), and scanning electron microscopy combined with petrographic image analysis (SEM-PIA). Only two samples (quartz meta-greywacke, and pegmatite quartz) were judged as deleterious according to the CT, the other aggregates were classified as innocuous. AMBT gave different results. Quartz meta-greywacke, chert, and quartzite exceeded the 0.100 % expansion limit after 14 days of testing. Pegmatite quartz indicated a lower value. The results of SEM-PIA confirmed the results of AMBT, indicating the most extensive ASR in those AMBs containing chert and quartz meta-greywacke. Parts of aggregates were leached out and massive deposits of alkali–silica gels were found filling air voids, microcracks, and the aggregate/cement paste interface. The medium or low degree of ASR was confirmed in AMBs containing quartzite or pegmatite quartz, respectively. ASR accentuated pre-existing microcracks and formed new dissolution gaps. In contrast, no correlation was found with the results of CT, which under-evaluated the ASR potential of chert and quartzite and over evaluated the ASR potential of pegmatite quartz. The variable ASR potential of the investigated aggregates was explained by the significant content of poorly crystalline matrix (in chert and quartz meta-greywacke), and by the presence of strained quartz typical with undulose extinction and the origin of quartz subgrains (in quartzite and pegmatite quartz).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP104%2F12%2F0915" target="_blank" >GAP104/12/0915: Quantitative analysis of quartz deformation affecting ASR in concrete</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

ISSN

1435-9529

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

76

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

133-144

UT code for WoS article

000394165200011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84945263585