Abstract:To explain the cause of excellent durability, X ray diffraction(XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectrum(FTIR), scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive(SEM EDS) and nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) were used to investigate the chemical composition and microstructure of silica fume metakaolin based geopolymer which was prepared with silica fume, metakaolin and alkali activator. The results show that the geopolymer has an amorphous structure without any special peak corresponding to crystal in XRD spectrogram. This amorphous product is alkali alumino silicate with a higher Si/Al mole ratio that differs from hydrated products of cement. After alkali activator is used, the peaks corresponding to Si—O—Si asymmetric stretching mode in FTIR spectrogram of metakaolin and silica fume have a shift to low frequency. It means that [AlO4] tetrahedrons replace some [SiO4] tetrahedrons in the Si—O—Si chain. Al is in the state of tetra coordinate in silica fume metakaolin based geopolymer. A three dimensional framework structure which consists of [SiO4] tetrahedron and [AlO4] tetrahedron comes into being with the result that silica fume metakaolin based geopolymer shows excellent durability.