Sıcak su kürünün silis dumanı takviyeli çimento harçlarının mekanik özelliklerine ve dayanıklılığına etkisi

It is known that curing temperature plays an important role on the fresh and hardened properties of cementbased materials. The increase in curing temperature at early period results in an accelerated hydration reaction to occur and enables increase in the rate of strength development of cement-based materials. However, the application of very high temperatures during curing negatively affects the strength and durability of the cement-based materials generally due to the expansion that takes place in the matrix. Despite the diversity of literature studies done in this area, the extent to which cement hydration and pozzolanic reaction of cement based materials are affected by hot water curing conditions has not been comprehensively investigated. The main purpose of the study hence is to examine the effects of early period of hot water curing on the mechanical properties and durability of cement mortars containing silica fume