NON-AUTOCLAVE SILICATE COMPOSITES USING NON-TRADITIONAL RAW MATERIALS AND CRYSTAL FILLER

Abstract

In the construction of buildings and structures, many wall materials are used, including silicate products of various functional purposes. In traditional production technology of such materials, the hardening process occurs due to the formation of a crystal structure in the CaO-SiO2-H2O system. There are various ways to modify the crystalline growth of the cementing substance, one of which is the use of various kinds of crystal seedings, in particular the use of natural and synthetic calcium hydrosilicates. The purpose of the experiments is to study the possibility of improving the performance properties of non-autoclave silicate composites by modifying the structure formation in the "lime-non-traditional aluminosilicate raw materials" system, which consists in the crystal-chemical regulation of the structure formation processes with a synthetic crystal filler CaO-SiO2-H2O (C-S-H). The use of synthetic crystalline filler C-S-H synthesized by hydrothermal synthesis in an autoclave at a pressure of 1 MPa and a temperature of 175 °C from a mixture of Ca(OH)2 and crystalline silica in a ratio different C/S=1 in the technology of non-autoclave silicate materials on the basis of alternative aluminium raw material allows to increase the operational indicators resulting products to 18 % or more. The optimal content of CaO and crystal filler C-S-H at which the maximum strength characteristics are provided is 8 % and 2.5 %, respectively, which allows to develop optimal compositions of raw materials for the technology of producing high-density non-autoclave silicate materials based on non-traditional aluminosilicate raw materials with a compressive strength of at least 20 MPa and more, with an average product density of no more than 2000 kg /m3.