Dear Members of Mailbase I did the UCS test using cement-treated Kaolin. For the sample preparation I used humidity room with 96% relative humidity.The humidity room temperature was 22 degree. The sample condition was 2, 5 and 10% cement ratio with 70% water contents. Before I did the tests I checked the volume change and shrinkage of samples. The volume change of 2% cement ratio was lager than the 5 and 10% cement ratio. Even though I observed cracks on the surface of 2% cement ratio. I wonder why small cement ratio makes a larger shrinkage than high cement ratio. Would you please let me know it if you have any information on them. Best regards ================================================== Kyuhwan Lee Senior Research Associate Building and Construction Engineering Department City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Hong Kong (O): 852-2194-2905 (R): 852-2334-7195 ================================================== ¿ì¸® ÀÎÅͳÝ, Daum Æò»ý ¾²´Â ¹«·á E-mail ÁÖ¼Ò ÇѸÞÀÏ³Ý Áö±¸ÃÌ ÇÑ±Û °Ë»ö¼ºñ½º Daum FIREBALL http://www.daum.net