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This document discusses different types of cement: 1) White cement is produced without iron or manganese oxides, giving it a white color. It is used for flooring, plastering, and swimming pools. 2) Colored cement is produced by mixing pigments with ordinary cement, allowing various colors like green, blue, brown, red, yellow, and black. It is used for decorative finishes. 3) Quick setting cement sets within 5 minutes and hardens within 30 minutes, making it suitable for underwater concrete placement. 4) Rapid hardening cement gains strength faster through higher lime content and burning temperatures, allowing earlier removal of forms. 5) Low heat cement contains less tricalcium aluminate

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Basic Civil Engineering - 14

This document discusses different types of cement: 1) White cement is produced without iron or manganese oxides, giving it a white color. It is used for flooring, plastering, and swimming pools. 2) Colored cement is produced by mixing pigments with ordinary cement, allowing various colors like green, blue, brown, red, yellow, and black. It is used for decorative finishes. 3) Quick setting cement sets within 5 minutes and hardens within 30 minutes, making it suitable for underwater concrete placement. 4) Rapid hardening cement gains strength faster through higher lime content and burning temperatures, allowing earlier removal of forms. 5) Low heat cement contains less tricalcium aluminate

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TRADITIONAL MATERIALS 19

1.4.1 Types of Cement


In addition to ordinary portland cement there are many varieties of cement. Important varieties are
briefly explained below:
(i) White Cement: The cement when made free from colouring oxides of iron, maganese and
chlorium results into white cement. In the manufacture of this cement, the oil fuel is used instead of coal
for burning. White cement is used for the floor finishes, plastering, ornamental works etc. In swimming
pools white cement is used to replace glazed tiles. It is used for fixing marbles and glazed tiles.
(ii) Coloured Cement: The cements of desired colours are produced by intimately mixing
pigments with ordinary cement. The chlorium oxide gives green colour. Cobalt produce blue colour.
Iron oxide with different proportion produce brown, red or yellow colour. Addition of manganese dioxide
gives black or brown coloured cement. These cements are used for giving finishing touches to floors,
walls, window sills, roofs etc.
(iii) Quick Setting Cement: Quick setting cement is produced by reducing the percentage of
gypsum and adding a small amount of aluminium sulphate during the manufacture of cement. Finer
grinding also adds to quick setting property. This cement starts setting within 5 minutes after adding
water and becomes hard mass within 30 minutes. This cement is used to lay concrete under static or
slowly running water.
(iv) Rapid Hardening Cement: This cement can be produced by increasing lime content and
burning at high temperature while manufacturing cement. Grinding to very fine is also necessary. Though
the initial and final setting time of this cement is the same as that of portland cement, it gains strength in
early days. This property helps in earlier removal of form works and speed in construction activity.
(v) Low Heat Cement: In mass concrete works like construction of dams, heat produced due to
hydration of cement will not get dispersed easily. This may give rise to cracks. Hence in such constructions
it is preferable to use low heat cement. This cement contains low percentage (5%) of tricalcium aluminate
(C3A) and higher percentage (46%) of dicalcium silicate (C2S).
(vi) Pozzulana Cement: Pozzulana is a volcanic power found in Italy. It can be processed from
shales and certain types of clay also. In this cement pozzulana material is 10 to 30 per cent. It can resist
action of sulphate. It releases less heat during setting. It imparts higher degree of water tightness. Its
tensile strength is high but compressive strength is low. It is used for mass concrete works. It is also
used in sewage line works.
(vii) Expanding Cement: This cement expands as it sets. This property is achieved by adding
expanding medium like sulpho aluminate and a stabilizing agent to ordinary cement. This is used for
filling the cracks in concrete structures.
(viii) High Alumina Cement: It is manufactured by calcining a mixture of lime and bauxite. It is
more resistant to sulphate and acid attack. It develops almost full strength within 24 hours of adding
water. It is used for under water works.
(ix) Blast Furnace Cement: In the manufacture of pig iron, slag comes out as a waste product.
By grinding clinkers of cement with about 60 to 65 per cent of slag, this cement is produced. The
properties of this cement are more or less same as ordinary cement, but it is cheap, since it utilise waste
product. This cement is durable but it gains the strength slowly and hence needs longer period of curing.

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