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Ultrasonic dispersion of hard dispersed ultrafine milled cement-based grout for water sealing of fractured hard rock
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8956-611x
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics.
Lund Univ, Dept Biomed Engn, Div Engn Geol, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden..
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9615-4861
2022 (English)In: Construction and Building Materials, ISSN 0950-0618, E-ISSN 1879-0526, Vol. 317, article id 125869Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Ever higher demands on the sealing of rock around underground structures drive the development of cement based grouts. The results of the previous study demonstrated that it is possible to mill cement to approximately 20 to 25 mu m and use it to seal fracture aperture down to approximately 70 mu m. Further milling deteriorates the penetrability of the grouts due to the flocculation of the fine particles. This study investigates ultrasound as a technique to improve dispersion of grouts based on ultrafine milled cement. The grout tested is based on cement where 95% of the cement mass has particles smaller than 12 mu m and is very hard to disperse. Dispersion with ultrasound is compared with a conventional laboratory mixer equipped with a disk and rotor-stator system. The dispersion efficiency of this mixing equipment was tested by a filter pump. The results confirmed that a conventional laboratory mixer equipped with a disk is not at all suitable for dispersion of this grout. The laboratory mixer equipped with a rotor-stator system is much better than a disc but still cannot disperse this fine milled grout properly. Ultrasound was found to be the most effective method. The dispersion achieved, measured with a filter pump, was around 54 mu m which indicates that it is possible to seal fracture aperture now down to 54 mu m, which is a significant improvement.

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Elsevier BV , 2022. Vol. 317, article id 125869
Keywords [en]
Ultrafine cement grout, Dispersion, Ultrasound dissolver, Laboratory dissolver
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Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-307303DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.125869ISI: 000736960800005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85120826704OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-307303DiVA, id: diva2:1630790
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Available from: 2022-01-21 Created: 2022-01-21 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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