Abstract
The insufficient early strengths of cement mortars in which partial cement had been replaced by pulverized slag melted from municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI) fly-ash were tackled in this study by adjusting the basicity of the slag through the addition of various amounts of CaCO 3 into MSWI fly-ash, melted into a ‘modified slag’, pulverized to partially replace cement. Increased basicity in the modified slag manifestly improves the early compressive strengths of cement mortar with 20% Portland cement replaced by the modified slag powder (20 wt.% CaCO 3 added). The 14-day and 28-day compressive strengths of the mortars evidently increased to nearly that of the reference specimen made of only Portland cement mortar. The 90-day compressive strength is even higher than that of the reference specimen. Porosity and Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR) analyses evidenced the improvement in early strengths by hydration while the enhancement in long-term strength by pozzolanic reaction in the CaCO 3 added slag-cement mortar.
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