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      <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2583-7214</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>TMP Universal Journal of Research and Review Archives</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2583-7214</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Ms Ashvi Jain</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.69557/ujrra.v3i2.80</article-id>
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        <article-title>EFFECTS OF NANOSILICA ON COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND WATER SORPTIVITY OF CONCRETE AT DIFFERENT WATER-CEMENT RATIOS</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alipour</surname>
            <given-names>Arash</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
        </contrib>
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      <aff id="aff-1">Department of civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-06-03">
        <day>03</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>3</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2024 Arash Alipour</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">
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            This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
            <uri xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</uri>
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        </license>
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      <self-uri xlink:href="https://tmp.twistingmemoirs.com/index.php/ujrra/article/view/80"/>
      <abstract>
        <p>Compressive strength and water sorptivity index (WSI) are among the decisive parameters defining the strength and durability of concrete in corrosive environments. Previous research on concrete technology has largely been attentive to methods to obtain highly resistant concrete. Importantly, marked capillary porosity inside the concrete enhances the ingression of detrimental ions into the concrete. To avoid this, WSI needs to be maximally diminished. Currently, there are some strategies such as the partial substitution of cement with nanosilica (a highly active artificial pozzolan) in the concrete mixing plan to enhance concrete properties. This research explored the effects of adding nanosilica on the compressive strength and WSI of concrete. A total of 336 cube concrete specimens were examined for 7 and 28 days in the Concrete Research Laboratory of Qazvin Azad University. Experiments covered 28 mixing plans involving 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6% cement substitution with nanosilica at water-cement ratios of 0.35, 0.40, 0.45, and 0.50. It was found that adding nanosilica to the concrete mixing plan enhances compressive strength and reduces WSI.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Concrete durability</kwd>
        <kwd>Compressive strength</kwd>
        <kwd>Water sorptivity</kwd>
        <kwd>Nanosilica</kwd>
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