As soon as the Cement comes into contact with water. This will start as soon as the cement and aggregates come into contact unless the aggregates have been dried of all surface water.
The curing of concrete is a reaction between the type of cement in the concrete and the water. This reaction between cement and water is known as hydration. When the concrete sets and gains strength through this process it is known as curing. Test cylinders of concrete for construction projects are placed in a curing room where they are continuous misted with water at 23 +-2 degrees Celsius for 7 and 28 days before testing. This provides adequate curing.
cement fine aggregates and course aggregates and water for the hydration of cement are the main component of plain cement concrete. and for RCC M-S bars are used with these component.
Concrete setting is initiated by a process called hydration. Rather than the concrete just 'drying out', the hydration process involves the water added to the materials (stone, sand & cement) reacting with the cement. The water reacts with calcium in the cement to form an alkali paste which bonds the materials together. Adding too little water means not enough cement hydrates to set properly, but too much will cause separation of the materials.
In anarid region, concrete placed as a road slab or roof slab gets dried up in a very short time, say within 2 hours.This condition should be maintained for 24 hours or at least till the final setting time of cement at which duration the concrete will haveassumed the finalvolume.Normally curing is done for 28days at 90% of strength gain is achievedUntil maximum design strength is achieved (should be 28 days): Concrete does not gain strength by "Drying out". It gains it through a process known as hydration. The road slabs used as an example in the first post will still undergo hydration once water makes contact with the concrete. (rain). k.k
It starts curing the second they put water in it.
Excess water (over hydration) causes weak concrete. The water in concrete is there to start a chemical process which results in the hardening process. The excess water is not used in the chemical process and results in a weakened concrete.
Hydration in concrete provides the means with which to mix Portland cement and the aggregates.
i do not know, you consider median.
You can add citric acid and sugar to stop hydration. But then the concrete is unusable and you need to throw it away.
heat of hydration should not be more than66 cal/g and 75cal/g for 7&28 days respectively
Advantages of curing:Gains strengthYields microcracksReleases high heat of hydration.
The curing of concrete is a reaction between the type of cement in the concrete and the water. This reaction between cement and water is known as hydration. When the concrete sets and gains strength through this process it is known as curing. Test cylinders of concrete for construction projects are placed in a curing room where they are continuous misted with water at 23 +-2 degrees Celsius for 7 and 28 days before testing. This provides adequate curing.
cement fine aggregates and course aggregates and water for the hydration of cement are the main component of plain cement concrete. and for RCC M-S bars are used with these component.
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proper compaction and proper curing of the concrete gives good concrete. for compaction, it lessen the air voids or micro space between the aggregates of the concrete, those voids are very little which is not really visible. for curing, it lessen the heat of hydration of the cement.
Curing is necessary for freshly cast concrete in order to maintain the moisture as the chemical constituents in cement react with water and heat evolves continuously until the setting process completes. The heat evolved during the setting of concrete is called heat of hydration, and this heat causes the water to evaporate. Proper and complete setting process is the most important phenomenon that imparts the desired strength to the concrete. If the freshly cast concrete is not cured, it develops cracks and also the chemical reactions will cease resulting in bad concrete.
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