Research on behavior mechanism and performance of concrete shrinkage reducing agent

The research on the function and mechanism of shrinkage reducing agent shows that shrinkage reducing agents can greatly reduce the shrinkage rate of concrete without adversely affecting the mechanical properties of concrete. The mechanism of the shrinkage-reducing agent was tested and analyzed from the water evaporation rate of the solution and the surface tension of the solution. The results showed that the addition of the shrinkage reducing agent could significantly reduce the surface tension of the aqueous solution, and had little effect on the evaporation rate of the water on the surface of the aqueous solution; the surface tension test shows that the mechanism of shrinkage reducing agent reducing drying shrinkage is mainly to reduce the surface tension of pore solution; the analysis from the water evaporation rate test shows that shrinkage reducing agent has no significant effect on water evaporation inhibition, and inhibiting concrete moisture evaporation is not the most commonly used shrinkage reducing agent reduction mechanism.