磷酸镁水泥基材料具有干缩小、耐磨性好、抗冻性和抗盐冻剥蚀性能优良、防钢筋锈蚀性能和抗干湿循环性能优良等特点。氧化镁活性、磷镁比、缓凝剂、水胶比以及粉煤灰掺量对磷酸镁水泥基材料干燥收缩有显著影响。水灰比低及基体内部存在大量均匀封闭气孔是磷酸镁水泥基材料基体抗冻性优良的主要原因,大量封闭气孔可能是基体内部发生化学反应生成二氧化碳气体造成或是由于水化放热过程中自由水蒸发受阻后经水化产物填充形成的。磷酸镁水泥基材料耐水性能和耐酸碱腐蚀性较差,但耐水性可通过改善缓凝剂、增大磷酸盐细度、增加预养护时间来改善。
Magnesium phosphate cement based materials possess many advantages including small dry shrinkage,excellent re-sistance to abrasion and deicer-scaling or freezing and thawing,good resistance to steel corrosion and wetting-drying cycle and so on.It is suggested that dry shrinkage of magnesium phosphate cement based materials is greatly effected by water to binder ratio,surface activity of magnesium oxide,phosphate to magnesia ratio,retarder and addition of fly ash.Excellent resistance to deicer-scaling or freezing and thawing owe to small water to binder ratio and lots of enclosed pores inside.These enclosed pores may be caused by creation of carbon dioxide gas or evaporation of free water for hydration heat evolution.Magnesium phosphate cement based materials has weak resistance to water or acid and alkali corrosion which may be improved by improve-ment of retarder,increasing fineness of phosphate prolonging pre-curing time.