Effect of hydration on the dielectric properties of C-S-H gel

Silvina Cerveny, Silvia Arrese-Igor, Jorge S. Dolado, Juan J. Gaitero, Angel Alegría, Juan Colmenero

doi:10.1063/1.3521481

<jats:p>The behavior of water dynamics confined in hydrated calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel has been investigated using broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS; 10−2–106 Hz) in the low-temperature range (110–250 K). Different water contents in C-S-H gel were explored (from 6 to 15 wt%) where water remains amorphous for all the studied temperatures. Three relaxation processes were found by BDS (labeled 1 to 3 from the fastest to the slowest), two of them reported here for the first time. We show that a strong change in the dielectric relaxation of C-S-H gel occurs with increasing hydration, especially at a hydration level in which a monolayer of water around the basic units of cement materials is predicted by different structural models. Below this hydration level both processes 2 and 3 have an Arrhenius temperature dependence. However, at higher hydration level, a non-Arrhenius behavior temperature dependence for process 3 over the whole accessible temperature range and, a crossover from low-temperature Arrhenius to high-temperature non-Arrhenius behavior for process 2 are observed. Characteristics of these processes will be discussed in this work.</jats:p>

Effect of hydration on the dielectric properties of C-S-H gel

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