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TECHNICAL DATA & PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
SECTION 1: Product Name
ALPHA MIX
SECTION 2: Manufactured by
Accelerated Concrete Technologies
110 ATP Drive
Albertville, AL 35951
Tel. (800) 999-1287 (256) 891-0997
Fax (256)
891-2703
SECTION 3: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
ALPHA MIX is a cloudy-white, odorless, non-toxic, zero VOC / VOS, user friendly, environmentally neutral colloidal silicate liquid.
SECTION 4: BASIC USE
ALPHA MIX added to portland cement concrete*s mix water will convert conventional mix designs to high-performance ones, generating
production of concrete that is extraordinarily hard, dense and impermeable. ALPHA MIX causes concrete's enhancement in several various ways, beginning with improvement of hydrolysis actions and reactions, by
significantly favorably enhancing hydration's by product quality, i.e., calcium hydroxide, while also, significantly increasing already-included Portland cement utilization. The resultant concrete
permeability / durability values become tremendously improved, while ALPHA MIX causes the production of very fine-textured, extremely homogeneous, aggregate zone paste and bulk paste, finally creating smaller
more uniform capillary and gel pore sizes, with virtually no plastic particle separation. ALPHA MIX utilization in batching portland cement concrete significantly reduces concrete's total air-void content as
it greatly improves its workability, and significantly lowers excess bleed water volumes, etc. ALPHA MIX in a concrete mix provides the mix with ability to initially introduce portland cement to mix water
without the usual abruptly violent actions and reactions which creates a cement potency loss, normally ascribable to water dilution and hydrolysis, which will create poor quality early produced cement paste,
paste which initially coats concrete's aggregates. ALPHA MIX utilization works to ensure early, initially-produced cement paste (aggregate zone paste), immediately coating the concrete's aggregates is of
the utmost attainable quality, ultimately and significantly improving concrete's paste-aggregate zone and paste-to-aggregate bond quality, virtually eliminating potential for micro cracks. Ultimately
increasing concrete's flexural strength, etc. ALPHA MIX enhanced, hydration by-products', i.e., calcium hydroxide quality, also sets the stage for concrete to receive a significantly greater, more
efficient, calcium lamination of C-S-H silicate polymer particles, strands, and/or chains, an action also causing reduction in ultimate volume of unutilized calcium hydroxide, left in concrete, which may later
interfere with concrete's ability to retain its integrity, due to potential detrimental internal chemical reactions, such as, delayed etteringite formation, and etc. ALPHA MIX ingredients prompt prolific
formation, extension, and branching of silicate polymer particles, strands, and/or chains, vital constituents in C-S-H tobermorite gel component, concrete's main strength component. Utilization of ALPHA MIX
in a concrete mix results in production of significantly less permeable, more durable concrete, which are some major factors that are normally associated with the extension of concrete's useful lifespan.
Also, importantly, ALPHA MIX utilization will create, to some varying degree (6-12%), an increased utilization of each portland cement particle in the mix. This attribute in turn causes a significantly greater
reduction in the sizes of left-over particle cores of each portland cement particle, ultimately left in the concrete, to act as aggregates. The various, smaller than normal, particle core sizes make these unique
particles an extremely valuable filler aggregate, sized somewhere between sand and normal cement particle sizes, which ultimately and integrally will provide excellent filler benefits, benefits similar to those
of silica fume, resulting in denser, more impermeable, and significantly more durable concrete that has greater resistance to pollutant / contaminate ingress, freeze-thaw cycle damage, steel corrosion, etc.
ALPHA MIX requires no special safety gear, handling, storage, finishing, or curing.
SECTION 5: INSTALLATION SUGGESTIONS
Dry Mix Batching:
As a temporary measure, ALPHA MIX can be poured directly into empty rinsed out transit mixer (If transit mixer is not clean, add 90% of
mix water volume prior to adding ALPHA MIX, prior to pulling truck under batch plant for loading.) Under batching plant, with mixer turning in its mixing mode, load a minimum of 90% of the total planned mix
water volume then begin loading cement, aggregate (in any order) and then follow with the remaining balance of mix water. ALPHA MIX, in this scenario, is used at 10 fluid ounces per 100 pounds of cement (1 ounce
per 10 lbs. of cement) mixed.
Slump may be increased later, if desired, using plain water, followed by 5 minutes of additional mixing by transit mixer.
Central Mixing Operations:
Determine volume needed at 10 fluid ounces of ALPHA MIX per 100 pounds of portland cement. Pour or pump the calculated volume of
ALPHA MIX into the mix water. Premeasure the tank when adding the mix water. Then batch the concrete as usual. After the concrete is batched, extra mixing time will be needed. For the
best results, a minimum of 50% more mixing time is desired. Slump may be increased later, if desired, using plain water, followed by 5 minutes of additional mixing by transit mixer.
Continuous Mixing Operations:
Determining dosage of ALPHA MIX: Calculate the volume needed at 10 ounces of ALPHA MIX per 100 pounds of portland cement. Calculate
the amount of mix water needed per 100 pounds of portland cement. This will provide your ratio of ALPHA MIX to the mix water. (For example, if the calculations show that 5 gallons of mix water are
required per 100 pounds of cement, the the water in the tank should be treated at the rate of 10 ounces of ALPHA MIX per 5 gallons of water.)
SECTION 6: PRECAUTIONS
NEVER ADD ALPHA MIX TO READY-MIX. ONLY ADD TO THE MIX WATER.
Undiluted APLHA MIX may etch glass or dull shiny aluminum and can be difficult to remove from other surfaces once it dries.
For more information read Material Safety Data Sheet.
SECTION 7: TECHNICAL DATA
- Physical: Liquid
- Color: Cloudy white
- Odor: None
- Specific Gravity: 1.10
- pH: +/- 11.5
- Flash Point: None
- Flammability: None
- Toxicity: None
- Pollants: None
- Hazardous Vapors: None
- VOC / VOS Content: none
- Spill Clean-up: Water Flush (Sewer Safe)
- Environmental Impact: None / Neutral
- User Status: Friendly
SECTION 8: SOME ADVANTAGES
- Converts normal mix designs to high performance ones
- Quicker and Easier Concrete Placement
- Adds Workability by Increased Lubricity
- Stronger Bond of Concrete to Steel
- Decreases Cementitious Material Waste
- Greater Density and Less Permeability
- Reduces Bleed Water Volume
- Reduced Shrinkage and Cracking
- Reduced Honeycombing and Laitance
- Reduced Leaching and Efflorescence
- Reduced Slab Curl Potential
- Reduced Internal/External Dusting Potential
- Reduced Rate of Absorption
- Greater Freeze-Thaw Resistance
- Increased Flexural Strength
- Increased Compressive Strength
- Increased Acid / Chemical Resistance
- Lowers Internal Chemical Reaction Potential
- Lowers Chloride Induced Corrosion Potential
- Greatly Improves Durability
- Improves Surface Abrasion Resistance
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