Abstract
By reducing the curing time, microwave curing can enhance the productivity, save the capital and decrease the plant areas for precast concrete when compared with the steam curing. Based on the results of 6-h and 24-h compressive strength tests the optimum curing regime was selected. The sample microwave cured using the selected curing regime was then compared against samples cured using (a) normal curing (b) steam curing at 40°C for 10h and (c) steam curing at 80°C for 4h by performing the compressive strength, XRD, TG-DSC, SEM-EDS and MIP. The results indicate that, compared with the steam curing at 80°C, microwave curing improves the compressive strength of mortar before the age of 28days, increases the porosity of mortar slightly, while reduces the pores in the range of >100nm greatly, forms short-rod AFt and smaller particle size of calcium hydroxide, and increases the adsorption of K, S and Mg by C-S-H gel.
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