ASTM Symposium on Prescriptive and Performance Specifications for Hydraulic Cements and Their Use in Concrete: Issues and Implications for Standards Development
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract ASTM C-359, a standard test method for early stiffening of Portland cement (mortar method), is used to assess false set and flash set behaviors of cement in mortar. This test method defines cement false set as “the early development of stiffness . . . . . .without evolution of much heat, which stiffness can be dispelled and plasticity regained by further mixing without addition of water,” while flash set is described as “the early development of stiffness . . . . . .usually with the evolution of considerable heat, which stiffness cannot be dispelled nor can the plasticity be regained by further mixing without addition of water.” Therefore, if penetration is regained after remixing, then the early stiffening is considered as false set. If remixing cannot restore the penetration, the early stiffening is considered as flash set. Although ASTM C-359 does not specify the causes of false set and flash set, it is generally understood that false set is mostly due to re-hydration of dehydrated gypsum in the cement, while flash set is believed to be the result of gypsum deficiency in the cement. The deficiency of gypsum allows rapid hydration of aluminate phase. Our test results indicated that in some cases ASTM C-359 alone could not be directly used to explain the origin of false set or flash set. It is found that early stiffening behavior is related to the amount of gypsum and degree of gypsum dehydration, to the clinker mineralogy and morphology, and to the physical property such as cement fineness.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".