Concrete Admixture
Hydration Maximizer for Extraordinarily Impermeable, High Performance Concrete!
Summary Introduction to Hydration Maximizer
“Mix Water Enhancer is a safe user-friendly liquid, that when added to a portland cement mix, effectively, and without complexity, converts a conventional portland cement concrete design into a very workable, high-performance / high-quality / high-durability concrete mix. This “converter” product possesses unique ability to consistently, significantly enhance every critical performance criteria (including permeability) that is associated with portland cement concrete.
As this product’s label name of Mix Water Enhancer (Hydration Maximizer) implies, this extremely unique one of a kind product provides portland cement concrete mixes with the most maximum and most beneficial degree of hydration currently possible, generating the consistent production of significantly increased volumes of hydrate product (C-S-H), during hydration, in a shorter period of time than in a normal mix, producing significantly increased volumes of C-S-H which greatly lower the resultant concrete’s capillary pore sizes while also increasing the utilization of the concrete’s available mix water volume, which significantly diminishes the concrete’s end-result and ultimate permeability factor. Mix Water Enhancer, poses no threat to our environment nor does it require special handling, storage, or curing procedures, plus it already has been thoroughly tested in the laboratory, and extensively utilized in a variety of projects.
As I’m sure you already know, today’s concrete structures / pavements, and etc., are becoming more and more complex while materials in concrete construction are progressively being required to meet more demanding standards of performance. To keep pace with performance standards in today’s products for concrete enhancement they should also be developed with respect to durability, as well as improved performance consistency, so as to upgrade the performance and durability of our constantly decaying concrete infrastructure / pavements, and etc.
High-performance concrete is currently the most promising technology for enhancing portland cement concrete performance critical criteria, and Mix Water Enhancer is the most efficient, effective, and consistent method of consistently, without complexity, producing high-performance Portland cement concrete.
Recently, a Major University “test verified” Mix Water Enhancer benefits to portland cement concrete, verifi cation testing required the use of five hundred (500) 6”x12” cylinders, two hundred (200) 6”x6”x12” beams, twelve (12) 24”x24”x8” reinforced slabs, and eight (8) 41/2”x9”x96” reinforced beams, tests proved Mix Water Enhancer had ability to convert normal concrete into high-performance concrete.
This verification testing encompassed a determination of compressive, splitting tensile, and flexural strengths at 7, 14, and 28 days, also 3 Months, 6 Months, and 1 year with a modulus of elasticity test at 28 days. A chloride penetration test was performed at 28 days, 4 Months, 6 months, and one (1) year. A coulomb permeability test was carried out at 56 days, and a petrographic analysis performed at 28 days.
Some laboratory-verified conclusions were:
1) Mix Water Enhancer significantly increased concrete’s workability, through added lubricity and homogeneity.
2) Mix Water Enhancer increased concrete’s compressive strength by at least 10-15%, flexural strength by 30-40%
3) Mix Water Enhancer remained effective in normal and severe environments.
4) Mix Water Enhancer reduced the air-void percentage in its specimens, as compared to control specimens, by approximately 50%.
5) Mix Water Enhancer specimens showed a reduced coulomb current passage of 29%, as compared to control specimens.
6) Control specimens in the “severe environment” test experienced rust, leaching, and longitudal cracking at steel’s level, while no such cracking or rusting was observed in beams utilizing Mix Water Enhancer.
7) Specimens containing Mix Water Enhancer showed a lower creep value than control specimens, confirming Mix Water Enhancer enhances creep behaviour.
8) Specimens containing Mix Water Enhancer had a noticeable increase in Modulus of elasticity.
9) Specimens utilizing Mix Water Enhancer had significantly lower measured percentages of chloride ion penetration than that of the control specimens.
The percentage chloride ions were measured after beam specimens, in the “severe environment” test, had been placed in a 15% salt solution (by weight of water) for 360 days and observed at a depth of 2” (steel reinforcement’s level).
NOTES:
(1) accelerated test results are based on concrete specimens exposed to “severe environment” exposure
(2) prior to testing, specimens were placed in three environments: normal conditions, i.e., Moisture room with 100% humidity and constant temperature of 73° Fahrenheit, severe conditions, i.e., tank with 15% sodium chloride solution, by weight of water, and laboratory conditions
(3) specimens incubated in the “severe environment” vessel were subjected to continuous wetting and drying cycles. Mix Water Enhancer works to ensure that both produced cement pastes (paste-aggregate zone cement paste and bulk cement paste), produced during concrete’s batching processes, are of the ultimate highest attainable quality, and will consistently produce concrete that has the same high-quality cement paste.
In other words, Mix Water Enhancer utilization consistently will translate to production of high-quality high-performance concrete, therefore, translating to consistent production of concrete with a significantly extended useful life span.
Mix Water Enhancer ingredients promote lowest permeability, in the shortest period of time, subsequently leaving the smallest most segmented capillaries possible, using your mix design.
Where Mix Water Enhancer is used in a mix starting with a 0.55 water/cement ratio by weight, the resulting water/cement ratio, following placement, will be equivalent to a 0.45 - 0.42 water/cement ratio or less, due to Mix Water Enhancer's unique cement hydration capabilities utilizing more already included cement content. This generates extraordinary volumes of cementitious material, greatly improving concrete's permeability factor rating.
Mix Water Enhancer ingredients also promote extraordinary homogeneity of the produced cement paste, an action which minimizes bleed-water coming
from inside the paste itself. During consolidation and setting, where internal bleed-water is present, there is possibility that bleed-water migrating upward can become trapped under horizontally
stratified grain surfaces of aggregates. Bleeding and inefficient packing of cement paste around affected aggregate, can cause voids to be formed. These type of voids are not filled during hydration,
creating a zone that can be more porous than the entire matrix would have been without the presence of these voids.
This situation even further promotes existence of initial bond micro-cracks at interfaces between aggregates and cement paste. When micro-cracking in concrete remains localized, and is not continuous,
this is not an extremely serious situation initially, except from the probable low compressive strength standpoint, however, over time, volume changes, freeze-thaw and wetting-drying cycles,
fatigue, alkali-aggregate reactions, etc. all tend to increase interior, and possibly exterior cracking. These crack networks serve to facilitate permeation of liquid contaminants, ions and gases
which destroy concrete's integrity and corrode reinforcement steel.
A more defect free concrete is produced where Mix Water Enhancer is utilized in the mix water, due to significant improvement in the make-up
of cement paste mortar. Since Mix Water Enhancer is added to mix water, prior to mixing it with cement. It has the distinct advantage of being
present at the exact same moment that water and cement make contact, greatly improving the hydrolysis reaction's by-product quality, such as calcium hydroxide, etc.
The use of Mix Water Enhancer ensures only the finest quality cement paste attainable is being initially produced, paste which almost immediately begins coating aggregates. The higher-quality paste significantly improves the concrete's final paste-to-aggregate bond quality, ultimately producing a much higher quality concrete installation, both externally and internally, that is extraordinarily more defect free than it would have been without Mix Water Enhancer. Also, improved paste-to-aggregate bond quality helps to increase concrete's flexural and compressive strength values.
Mix Water Enhancer MSDS
Mix Water Enhancer Technical Data
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