Water Absorption Properties of Cement Pastes: Experimental and Modelling Inspections

Table 5

Comparison among the sorptivity values obtained experimentally (S_exp), calculated on the basis of the IFU model (S_IFU) and the formulas proposed by Raimondo (S_[9]) and Scherer (S_[12]).

Sample	Sexp (mg cm^−2 s^−0.5)	SIFU (mg cm^−2 s^−0.5)	S[9] (mg cm^−2 s^−0.5)	S[12] (mg cm^−2 s^−0.5)
A-1	5.59	4.34	10.42	37.78
A-2	8.83	6.19	10.75	345.94
B-1	0.42	0.97	5.03	2.68
B-2	0.80	1.51	10.97	5.31
B-3	0.92	1.60	24.46	23.11
C-1	5.71	6.44	39.90	2.47
C-2	2.29	4.93	42.80	5.25
C-3	3.28	4.84	31.35	5.68
C-4	3.81	2.92	63.12	5.12
D-1	2.20	3.84	5.32	6.72
D-2	7.20	9.35	11.94	9.44
D-3	16.90	19.94	10.28	23.39
D-4	35.00	32.20	21.20	33.51
D-5	51.00	50.68	79.40	114.69
D-6	59.00	59.53	91.77	66.45