Abstract:By testing chemically combined water and compressive strength of hardened pastes at different ages, the influence of fineness and content of fly ash on hydration characteristics of cement fly ash composite binders at low water binder ratio was studied. The experimental results indicate that the increase of content of fly ash facilitates early hydration of cement, but decreases chemically combined water and compressive strength of hardened pastes at the same time. The increase of fineness of fly ash does not improve hydration degree of pastes, the dense packing and micro aggregate effect of ultrafine fly ash play an important role in improvement of compressive strength of hardened pastes.