Volodchenko A.A.

Candidate of Engineering Sciences (Ph.D.), Associate Professor, Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov, Russia

Study of the Influence of Hydrothermal Treatment Parameters on the Properties of Lightweight Silicate Bricks Using Aluminosilicate Microspheres and Substandard Clay Rocks

https://doi.org/10.58224/2618-7183-2023-6-5-4
Abstract
This article investigates the influence of various parameters of hydrothermal treatment on the properties of lightweight silicate bricks obtained using substandard clay raw materials, construction lime and aluminosilicate microspheres. It was found that it is possible to obtain products with the required performance characteristics at a minimum hydrothermal treatment pressure of 0.2 MPa. With an increase in pressure to 0.4 MPa, it is possible to reduce the time of isothermal exposure while main-taining the required properties, which helps to reduce the energy intensity of production. The optimal amount of CaO depends on the specific parameters of hydrothermal treatment. So in order to achieve maximum strength indicators, the content of CaO is 10 wt. % at a pressure of 0.2 MPa and 15 wt. % at a pressure of 0.4 MPa, respectively. The addition of aluminosilicate microspheres makes it possible to significantly reduce the average density and obtain a lightweight silicate brick with this indicator from 930 to 1610 kg /m3. The rational time of isothermal exposure, ensuring the formation of a cementing compound of optimal composition, and as a result, obtaining a material with high physical and me-chanical properties at a pressure of 0.2 MPa is 8 hours, and at a pressure of 0.4 MPa is 6 hours. Math-ematical models are proposed for the selection and optimization of lightweight silicate brick compositions based on construction lime, substandard clay rocks and aluminosilicate microspheres.
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Efficient Silicate Composites of Dense Structure using hollow microspheres and Unconventional Aluminosilicate Raw Materials

https://doi.org/10.58224/2618-7183-2023-6-2-19-34
Abstract
One of the urgent tasks in the field of building materials science is to provide the construction complex with various types of environmentally friendly, reliable and energy-saving materials, the production and use of which will contribute to solving the problem of anthropogenic impact on the environment through the use of little-used technogenic raw materials. In the current conditions of import substitution, it is necessary to use the existing technological base to increase the volume of production of affordable, highly efficient, environmentally friendly traditional building materials, including using the existing raw materials base of the regions. In the market of building materials, structural wall materials of hydration hardening obtained using Portland cement as a binder are widely represented. However, silicate materials occupy not a small market share. It is known that pressed silicate materials of dense structure have fairly good strength indicators, but their thermophysical characteristics are low. A decrease in the average density of dense silicate products can be achieved by introducing various pore-forming components, such as hollow microspheres, into the raw material mass. The paper shows that the use of hollow aluminosilicate microspheres in the technology of obtaining silicate materials of dense structure based on unconventional aluminosilicate raw materials with energy-saving parameters of autoclave synthesis (water vapor pressure 0.4 MPa) and under conditions of heat and humidity treatment at atmospheric pressure allows to obtain a building composite with improved thermophysical and acoustic properties. Introduction to the raw mixture of aluminosilicate microspheres in the amount of 10-60 wt. % allows you to reduce the value of the average density index to 45%. The value of the compressive strength index of such samples, depending on the composition and hardening conditions, is 7-21.5 MPa at their average density of 920-1610 kg /m3, respectively.
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INFLUENCE OF ARTIFICIAL CALCIUM HYDROSILICATES ON THE HARDENING PROCESSES AND PROPERTIES OF NON-AUTOCLAVE SILICATE MATERIALS BASED ON UNCONVENTIONAL ALUMINOSILICATE RAW MATERIALS

https://doi.org/10.34031/2618-7183-2020-3-2-19-28
Abstract
Оne of the possible ways to improve the properties of building materials is to modify the processes of structure formation, which can be realized through the use of crystalline primers. In this regard, it is urgent to study the effect of artificial calcium hydrosilicates on hardening processes, as well as the properties of non-autoclave silicate materials based on non-traditional aluminosilicate raw materials. Studies have shown that the addition of artificial calcium hydrosilicates (CSH) in an amount of 1-1.5 wt. %, when the content in the mixture of CaO is less than 10 wt. %, effectively increases the strength parameters of products at all stages of heat and moisture treatment from 8 to 16%. The most intense increase in strength is observed during the heat-moisture treatment (TBO) from 3 to 6 hours and is at least 13%, while in samples without the addition of artificial calcium hydrosilicates, the strength increase is 6%. The addition of artificial calcium hydrosilicates intensifies the processes of structure formation, which ensures an increase in crystalline matter, and, due to the fibrous structure, acts as a fiber, which contributes to the nano-reinforcement of the cementing substance formed from neoplasms in the CaO-SiO2(Al2O3)-H2O system based on clay rocks and calcium oxide. Due to the accelerated set of strength, it is possible to reduce the duration of isothermal exposure while maintaining the necessary performance characteristics.
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