This article is about the building product of cement. For the Australian heritage-listed production site, see Portland Cement Works Precinct.
Bags of portland cement wrapped and stacked on a pallet.Blue Circle Southern Cement works near Berrima, New South Wales, Australia.
Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin, and is usually made from limestone. It is a fine powder, produced by heating limestone and clay minerals in a kiln to form clinker, grinding the clinker, and adding 2 to 3 percent of gypsum. Several types of portland cement are available. The most common, called ordinary portland cement (OPC), is grey, but white portland cement is also available. Its name is derived from its resemblance to Portland stone which is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. It was named by Joseph Aspdin who obtained a patent for it in 1824. His son William Aspdin is regarded as the inventor of "modern" portland cement due to his developments in the 1840s.[1]
The low cost and widespread availability of the limestone, shales, and other naturally occurring materials used in portland cement make it a relatively cheap building material. Its most common use is in the production of concrete, a composite material consisting of aggregate (gravel and sand), cement, and water.
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Portlandcement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty...
ability of the cement to set in the presence of water (see hydraulic and non-hydraulic lime plaster). Hydraulic cements (e.g., Portlandcement) set and become...
Cement clinker is a solid material produced in the manufacture of portlandcement as an intermediary product. Clinker occurs as lumps or nodules, usually...
is mixed with dry Portlandcement and water, the mixture forms a fluid slurry that is easily poured and molded into shape. The cement reacts with the water...
impermeable finish, cement board is a stable, durable backing board. There is a class of cement board strictly constructed of a Portlandcement based core with...
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PortlandCement Association is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of cement and concrete. The organization conducts and sponsors research...
company manufacturing cement. It was founded in 1900 as the Associated PortlandCement Manufacturers Ltd through the fusion of 24 cement works, mostly around...
Hyatt, published a report entitled An Account of Some Experiments with Portland-Cement-Concrete Combined with Iron as a Building Material, with Reference...
used as a high-performance substitute for Portlandcement or as clinker for Portlandcement production. Cements blended with fly ash are becoming more common...
Soil cement is a construction material, a mix of pulverized natural soil with small amount of portlandcement and water, usually processed in a tumbler...
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Cape Portland, Tasmania, a cape on the north-eastern tip of Tasmania Portland, New South Wales, a town with the first Australian cement works Portland, Victoria...
common to ancient Egyptian construction. With the introduction of Portlandcement during the 19th century, the use of lime mortar in new constructions...
PortlandCement Works Precinct is a heritage-listed former cement works and limestone quarries and now disused industrial site at Williwa Street, Portland...
Villas (Cuba). The cement can reduce carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) related to manufacturing by 30% as compared to ordinary Portlandcement. In 2014, the LC3...
different from those of silica fume. The first testing of silica fume in Portland-cement-based concretes was carried out in 1952. The biggest drawback to exploring...
composition of: Clinker and non-hydrated Portlandcement, and; Hardened cement pastes obtained after hydration and cement setting. Four main phases are present...
Typically its color was gray, from the innate color of most Portlandcement, but white Portlandcement is also used. Today's stucco manufacturers offer a very...
this "Portlandcement" (also referred to as proto-Portlandcement). Proto-Portlandcement had a different chemical makeup from other natural cements being...
2023, Cimerwa Cement Limited operated as a 51 percent subsidiary of Pretoria PortlandCement Company (PPC Limited), a South African cement-manufacturing...
conditioner and neutralizing agent for acid soil and in the manufacture of Portlandcement. Because some marls have a very low permeability, they have been exploited...
the combination of finely dehydrated ground Portlandcement layer and a coarser layer of sand and cement. The pigment layer is hydraulically pressed into...
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