Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer

Geopolymer is the state of the art binder in concrete technology. It utilizes alkaline solution to activate alumina and silica precursors from source material and forms aluminosilicate-based binding material. Nevertheless, the presence of high calcium content in the source material can reduce the...

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Main Authors: Kusbiantoro, Andri, Mohd Sobri, Ibrahim, Khairunisa, Muthusamy, Aizat, Alias
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/1/Andri_Kusbiantoro_%28conference%29.pdf
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author Kusbiantoro, Andri
Mohd Sobri, Ibrahim
Khairunisa, Muthusamy
Aizat, Alias
author_facet Kusbiantoro, Andri
Mohd Sobri, Ibrahim
Khairunisa, Muthusamy
Aizat, Alias
author_sort Kusbiantoro, Andri
building UMP Institutional Repository
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description Geopolymer is the state of the art binder in concrete technology. It utilizes alkaline solution to activate alumina and silica precursors from source material and forms aluminosilicate-based binding material. Nevertheless, the presence of high calcium content in the source material can reduce the performance of geopolymer binder, particularly in terms of its workability performance. The available commercial admixture cannot provide significant improvement to the rapid setting time generated by high calcium in geopolymer system. This research studied the effect of sucrose and citric acid as the proposed natural admixture in fly ash based geopolymer binder. Based on Vicat setting time result, these materials behave oppositely in fly ash based geopolymer paste. Sucrose tends to increase the setting time of geopolymer paste, while citric acid has an accelerating effect. An unexpected trend is also shown from the relation between porosity and compressive strength of hardened specimen. It appears that the rapid production of geopolymer gels to fill the water-filled voids was not followed by the quality of gel structure. However, these results have presented an encouraging prospect for natural-based material to be developed as the admixture for geopolymer concrete.
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spelling ump-30852018-02-19T07:08:23Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/ Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer Kusbiantoro, Andri Mohd Sobri, Ibrahim Khairunisa, Muthusamy Aizat, Alias TH Building construction TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Geopolymer is the state of the art binder in concrete technology. It utilizes alkaline solution to activate alumina and silica precursors from source material and forms aluminosilicate-based binding material. Nevertheless, the presence of high calcium content in the source material can reduce the performance of geopolymer binder, particularly in terms of its workability performance. The available commercial admixture cannot provide significant improvement to the rapid setting time generated by high calcium in geopolymer system. This research studied the effect of sucrose and citric acid as the proposed natural admixture in fly ash based geopolymer binder. Based on Vicat setting time result, these materials behave oppositely in fly ash based geopolymer paste. Sucrose tends to increase the setting time of geopolymer paste, while citric acid has an accelerating effect. An unexpected trend is also shown from the relation between porosity and compressive strength of hardened specimen. It appears that the rapid production of geopolymer gels to fill the water-filled voids was not followed by the quality of gel structure. However, these results have presented an encouraging prospect for natural-based material to be developed as the admixture for geopolymer concrete. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/1/Andri_Kusbiantoro_%28conference%29.pdf Kusbiantoro, Andri and Mohd Sobri, Ibrahim and Khairunisa, Muthusamy and Aizat, Alias (2012) Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer. In: The 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Future for Human Security , 3 - 5 October 2012 , Kyoto University, Japan. . (Published)
spellingShingle TH Building construction
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Kusbiantoro, Andri
Mohd Sobri, Ibrahim
Khairunisa, Muthusamy
Aizat, Alias
Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer
title Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer
title_full Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer
title_fullStr Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer
title_full_unstemmed Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer
title_short Development of Sucrose and Citric Acid as the Natural Based Admixture for Fly Ash Based Geopolymer
title_sort development of sucrose and citric acid as the natural based admixture for fly ash based geopolymer
topic TH Building construction
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/1/Andri_Kusbiantoro_%28conference%29.pdf