Rheology of eco-friendly mortars - Effect of industrial wastes additions

– Mortar is a mixture of sand, cement, water and eventually additives. With the environmentalissues, mortars are increasingly formulated with mineral additions as a substitute for cement in order toproduce ecological mortars. It is one of the most widely used cementitious materials in the field ofconstruction and civil engineering after concrete. Mortar placement techniques are evolving day by day,such as pumping, spraying and injection. Therefore, knowing the rheological behavior of mortars becomesmore and more crucial to master their implementation techniques. This study presents the development ofa vane rheometer to estimate the plastic viscosity yield stress of mortars. The rheological parameters weredeveloped from measurements using a procedure to convert data from moment torque and rotational speedto shear stresses versus shear rate. The procedure used considered the locally sheared material as a Binghamfluid and calculated the characteristic shear rate from the quilt analogy. The device was tested with threeexperimental programs in which many rheological parameters of the compositions of different mortars werecalculated. The results obtained validated the developed rheometer test procedure and confirmed that thetest results are reproducible and repeatable. Measurements were made on different compositions of mortarof each mineral addition, altering the amount of blast furnace slag (BFS) and fly ash (FA) in order toevaluate the impact of supplemental cementitious materials and industrial wastes on the rheologicalcharacteristics (plastic viscosity and yield stress) of eco-friendly mortar..