Effect of Alkali Activator Concentrations and Elevated Temperature Curing Regimes on The Strength of Fly Ash Based Geopolymer Mortar
Abstract
Geopolymers have received considerable attention due to their properties and applications as environmentally friendly alternatives to ordinary Portland cement. Geopolymer mortar (GM) is an emerging alternative to ordinary Portland cement mortar (OPCM) and is produced via a polycondensation reaction between aluminosilicate source materials and an alkaline solution. As a relatively new material, many engineering properties of geopolymer mortar are still undetermined. In this study, the compressive strength, have been studied experimentally. A total of 12 geopolymer mix mortar were tested for the abovementioned characteristics. The experimental data was analysed by an analysis of variance (ANOVA) utilizing MINITAB16 statistical software. This method establishes the magnitude of the total variation in the results and distinguishes the random variation from the contribution of each variable. Based on ANOVA results, all the level of significance values was determined to be less than 0.05 which indicates the independent variables are effective on compressive strength of geopolymer mortars.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Kasım Mermerdaş
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Türkiye
Gailan Pirazhn
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Italy
Safie Mahdi Oleiwi
This is me
Iraq
Esameddin Mulapeer
This is me
Publication Date
December 31, 2018
Submission Date
December 27, 2018
Acceptance Date
January 4, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 3 Number: 3