Interpretation of measurements results of ice content in freezing mortars using DSC method

Piotr Stępień


Department of Building Engineering; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Kielce University of Technology (Poland)

Zbigniew Rusin


Department of Building Engineering; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Kielce University of Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-8330

Przemysław Świercz


Department of Building Engineering; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Kielce University of Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6579-8741

Abstract

The results of investigations of heat flows recorded at the low temperature differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) in the freezing cement mortars soaked with water are presented. Methods for extracting the thermal effects associated with the phase change of water as well as the methods for calculating the weight of ice with reference to the specific process temperature at which the phenomenon occurs are analyzed. It is found that computation assumptions and technical limitations of the calorimeter described in the technical literature can lead to significantly different results of determining the mass of formed ice.


Keywords:

phase transition of water, ice content, DSC, mortars

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Published
2013-09-11

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Stępień, P., Rusin, Z. and Świercz, P. (2013) “Interpretation of measurements results of ice content in freezing mortars using DSC method”, Budownictwo i Architektura, 12(3), pp. 209–214. doi: 10.35784/bud-arch.2033.

Authors

Piotr Stępień 

Department of Building Engineering; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Kielce University of Technology Poland

Authors

Zbigniew Rusin 

Department of Building Engineering; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Kielce University of Technology Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-8330

Authors

Przemysław Świercz 

Department of Building Engineering; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Kielce University of Technology Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6579-8741

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