Optimizing Cement Composition with Effective Thickening Agents for Enhanced Performance
This study was conducted using a CEM I 52.5N sample (“Milke®” from HeidelbergCement AG, Heidelberg, Germany). Its properties are presented in Table 1. Composition of the cement was obtained by Q-XRD using a Bruker axs D8 Advance instrument (Bruker, Karlsruhe, Germany) with Bragg–Brentano geometry. Topas 4.0 software was employed to quantify the amounts of individual phases present in the sample by following Rietveld's method of refinement. The amounts of gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) and hemi-hydrate