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Usually the flowing concrete manufactured upon normal-mixed base concrete would segregate due to the less of fine particle content. In the previous studies, a new type admixture(liquid segregation reducing type superplasticizer) has been developed to prevent such segregation without modification of base concrete mixture. In this study, the tests are performed in laboratory to evaluate the admixture by analyzing the properties of flowing concrete with different water to cement ratios, so that it could be used in the fields. According to the results, this kind of superplasticizer could improve the fluidity of concrete without causing segregation. However, it seems to be more desirable of the superplasticizer could be adjusted, before it is put into the practical use, not to cause some other problems such as rapid rate of slump and air loss and retarding of setting time.

It is known that high flowing concrete performs much higher fluidity, segregation resistibility and better placeability than normal concrete. However, it is hard to apply high fluidity concrete in field because of high manufacturing cost. Therefore, we intend to investigate the validity of segregation reducing type superplasticizer which is made by combining 0.61 of viscosity agent and 0.022 of AE agent for 1 of superplasticizer. Test are conducted on high flowing concrete using fly ash by applying segregation reducing type superplasticizer. According to experimental results, As contents of fly ash increase, fluidity, segregation resistibility and placeability shows favorable results. And also compressive strength at early age shows to be retarded, while it gains high strength at later age.