The chemometric study of limestone physico-chemical properties and thermal behavior for application in construction composites

Autor: Radulović Dragan, Terzić Anja, Pezo Lato, Andrić Ljubiša, Grigorova Irena
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Science of Sintering, Vol 49, Iss 3, Pp 247-261 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0350-820X
1820-7413
DOI: 10.2298/SOS1703247R
Popis: The limestone, as an economically sustainable and easily available basic raw material, is frequently utilized in the building industry for resolving of the environmental protection issues. The limestone is incorporated in a cementitious system either by grinding with cement clinker, or by blending with the binder during concrete production. The employing of powdery limestone as partial cement replacement gives the construction composites with properties comparable to that of conventional concrete. The study of limestone thermal behavior and its chemistry is crucial for the prognosis of the designed composites properties. In this work, the instrumental techniques (atomic emission spectroscopy, differential thermal and thermo-gravimetric analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy) and the Principal component analysis were employed to discriminate and classify 22 limestone types. The PCA statistical method, as a means of spectra and experimental data fingerprinting, grouped the samples in a multi-dimensional factor space producing four graphical prognosis - one for each instrumental method. DTA/TG peak values varied the most in a short range between 830-870°C, while FTIR spectra showed the highest diversity in the 867-887 cm-1 and 1237-1647 cm-1 ranges. This research was governed by an idea to reveal whether it is possible to differentiate various limestone types and to predict the possibility of their employment in construction composites on the basis of the results of instrumental and mathematical analyses. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. ON 172057, III 45008, TR 31055, TR 34006, and TR 34013]
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