Essential Methods in the Concreting Works
Superplasticizers and plastic ants water reducers, accelerators and retarders and curing, air-entraining and water-repellent mass: Adjuvant are mixed with cement to improve the physical and aesthetic characteristics of the concrete but also to facilitate the casting. These additives are adapted to the evolution of the composition of the binders and the quality of the aggregates crushed rocks as well as to the expectations of the user companies’ fluidity, workability, resistance to help them formulate materials which present the best technical, economical and ecological compromise on construction sites. The adjuvant is almost the only lever on which concrete producers and pre-manufacturers can play to meet the constraints of the formulation. The use of the concrete foam agent is essential there.
What is an adjuvant?
Adjuvant for concrete, mortars and groutgive the following definition: Product incorporated at the time of mixing the concrete or mortar at a dose less than or equal …