Abstract
Active rheology control (ARC) or active stiffening control (ASC) is a concept with which the conflicting rheological requirements during different stages of concrete casting can be reconciled. For instance, formwork leakage could be reduced by actively controlling structuration at the formwork joints, without having the negative impact of increased structuration during pumping and form filling. Using the concepts of magnetorheology, an active control methodology was thus recently developed by the authors to study the control of formwork leakages under pressure. This was performed using a small-scale laboratory test setup, using cementitious pastes containing magnetisable particles. To upscale from paste to mortar, the effect of volume fraction of sand on the magnetorheological (MR) response and blocking mechanisms of mixtures containing Fe3O4 nanoparticles is thus investigated in the current study. The MR response is determined using storage modulus tests, and the impact of ASC for leakage reduction is investigated by measuring the flow rate. Experimental results show that increasing the sand volume beyond a threshold causes a reduction in mobility of the magnetic particles, and thus lowers the MR effect. Despite this reduction in the MR effect at high sand volume, the increased particle interactions induce clogging and filtration effects, drastically lowering the flow rate. Applying the ASC method refines the voids in the clog, thereby eliminating the filtration effect. It is concluded that ASC can be used on mortar, with the expectation that there would be a reduction in the magnetorheological effect with increasing volume of fine aggregates.
Funder
European Research Council
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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