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2. Final set. Occurs when the cement has hardened to the point at which it can sustain some load.
These particular times are just arbitrary points used to characterize cement, they do not have any fundamental chemical significance. They
describe the setting of the cement and are not tied to the setting time of concrete.
Both common setting time tests, the Vicat needle and the Gillmore needle, define initial set and final set based on the time at which a needle of
particular size and weight either penetrates a cement paste sample to a given depth or fails to penetrate a cement paste sample. The Vicat needle
test is more common and tends to give shorter times than the Gillmore needle test. Table 1 shows ASTM C 150 specified set times.
2. Mindess, S. and Young, J.F. (1981). Concrete. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.↵
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