Table 5.

Summary of measured sorptivity and normalized sorptivity for mortar samples exposed to CaCl₂ solutions.

Mixture No.	Sample Description	CaCl2 Solution (%)	Sorptivity1 (mm/s1/2)	Normalized Sorptivity (Ssolution/Swater)	% Deviation from Theoretical Value
1	w/c = 0.36, Type I	0	0.214 ± 0.006	1.00 ± 0.03	0.0
		10	0.138 ± 0.002	0.64 ± 0.01	28.9
		20	0.097 ± 0.002	0.45 ± 0.01	41.0
		29.8	0.039 ± 0.002	0.18 ± 0.01	69.7
2	w/c = 0.42, Type I	0	0.277 ± 0.003	1.00 ± 0.01	0.0
		10	0.210 ± 0.003	0.76 ± 0.01	16.3
		20	0.144 ± 0.003	0.52 ± 0.01	32.3
		29.8	0.035 ± 0.003	0.13 ± 0.01	78.9
3	w/c = 0.50, Type I	0	0.311 ± 0.019	1.00 ± 0.06	0.0
		10	0.235 ± 0.009	0.76 ± 0.03	16.2
		20	0.160 ± 0.006	0.52 ± 0.02	32.9
		29.8	0.051 ± 0.003	0.16 ± 0.01	72.4
4	w/c = 0.42, Type V	0	0.361 ± 0.007	1.00 ± 0.02	0.0
		10	0.327 ± 0.007	0.91 ± 0.02	0.3
		20	0.224 ± 0.004	0.62 ± 0.01	19.1
		29.8	0.074 ± 0.004	0.20 ± 0.01	65.8

¹1 mm/s^1/2 = 0.039 in/s^1/2