Research Article

Experimental Investigation on Use of Wheat Straw Ash and Bentonite in Self-Compacting Cementitious System

Table 4

Pore sizes and total porosity of SCP formulations at 1 and 7 days.

Sample ID Avg. pore radius (nm) Max. pore radius (nm)Total porosity (%) Porosity (%)
(diameter ≤100 nm)
Porosity (%)
(diameter ≥100 nm)
1 d*7 d1 d7 d1 d7 d1 d7 d1 d7 d

CEM18.510.256728.557355.715.316.645.468.254.631.8
C + 10% WSA19.45.757011.452945.617.512.543.784.556.315.5
C + 10% BN (R)20.27.155572.556169.220.113.544.381.355.718.7
C + 10% BN (H)19.76.555653.454521.618.412.642.978.457.121.6

“d” denotes number of days.