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STRENGTH AND DURABILITY TESTS OF MORTAR‐MIX MORTAR *
Author(s) -
Spangler M. G.
Publication year - 1933
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1933.tb19224.x
Subject(s) - mortar , lime , durability , plasticizer , materials science , lime mortar , composite material , cement , geotechnical engineering , metallurgy , geology
The continued use and development of finely ground raw clay, or mortar‐mix, as a plasticizer for cement‐sand mortars has led to further and more comprehensive physical tests of this product. This paper gives a brief description and the results of tension, compression, freezing and thawing, bond strength, and absorption tests recently conducted on samples of mortar‐mix from two clay products plants in Iowa. These tests are compared with similar tests of hydrated lime when used as a plasticizer. They confirm a previous conclusion that there is no substantial difference in the physical propcrtics of sand‐cement mortars whcn equal percentages of mortar‐mix or hydrated lime are used as the greasing agent.