TY - EJOU AU - Xu, Yongdong AU - He, Tingshu TI - Effect of Mitigating Strength Retrogradation of Alkali Accelerator by the Synergism of Sodium Sulfate and Waste Glass Powder T2 - Journal of Renewable Materials PY - 2021 VL - 9 IS - 11 SN - 2164-6341 AB - This work aims to utilize waste glass powder (WGP) as a plementary material to mitigate the strength shrinkage caused by the alkaline accelerator. Waste glass power was used to replace cement by 0%, 10%, and 20% to evaluate waste glass powder on the alkaline accelerator’s strength retrogradation. The results show that the strength improvement effect of unitary glass powder is inconspicuous. Innovative methods have been proposed to use sodium sulfate and waste glass powder synergism, using the activity of amorphous silica in glass powder. Compared with the reference group, the compressive strength of 28d mortar increases by 67% when the sodium sulfate content is 2.5%, and the replacement amount of waste glass powder is 10%. Besides, XRD and SEM analysis of hydration products also confirmed that the synergistic effect of sodium sulfate and waste glass powder could reduce strength inversion. The findings presented in this paper are pivotal for using waste glass to solve the problem of strength inversion caused by the alkaline accelerator. KW - Synergism; waste glass powder; alkaline accelerator; strength inversion DO - 10.32604/jrm.2021.015931