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Maria Valean, Daniela Lucia Manea, Claudiu Aciu, Florin Popa, Lumini?a Monica Ple?a, Elena Jumate and Gabriel Furtos
The rising concern for the environment and the need for a sustainable economic model has stimulated experimentation in the field of construction materials, notably in replacing certain components from cementitious materials with construction and demoliti...
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Thais Theomaris Grabowski, Juliana Martins Teixeira de Abreu Pietrobelli and Ramiro José Espinheira Martins
This study aimed to investigate the technical feasibility of replacing cement in mortar production with sludge generated in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), prepared using different treatments. The sludge used in the experiments was processed using f...
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Seyedsaleh Mousavinezhad, Judit M. Garcia, William K. Toledo and Craig M. Newtson
For several decades, class F fly ash has been an attractive supplementary cementitious material, at least in part, due to its ability to reduce Portland cement consumption and mitigate alkali-silica reactions in concrete. However, fly ash availability is...
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Temple Chimuanya Odimegwu, A. B. M. A. Kaish, Maslina Jamil, M. F. M. Zain, Asset Turlanbekov and Ahmed W. Al Zand
This study evaluated the effect of alum sludge as an alternative to fly ash in fabricating geopolymer paste and mortar. The blending of this industrial waste (alum sludge and fly ash) is not only for the benefit of sustainable construction and disposal o...
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Albert A. Griño, Jr., Hannah Shane P. Soriano, Michael Angelo B. Promentilla and Jason Maximino C. Ongpeng
This study explored self-healing in geopolymer mortar cured at ambient temperature using polypropylene fibers and bacterial co-cultures of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus megaterium. Damage degree, compressive strength, ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), st...
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Antonio Formisano and Antonio Davino
Current practices supporting sustainable building design aim at reducing the expenditure of natural resources, such as raw materials, energy and water, in the production of construction supplies. In the current paper water is replaced by fennel centrifug...
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Mohannad Alhusban and Azadeh Parvin
Sustainable solutions in the building construction industry promotes the use of innovative materials such as textile reinforced mortar (TRM) as a strengthening technique resulting in a reduced life-cycle cost. This paper presents a nonlinear finite eleme...
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Jair A. Baldovino, Carlos Millan-Paramo and Manuel Saba
Recently, studies that introduce alternative binders or wastes for created geo-materials that can be mixed with soil to give it greater strength, are of paramount importance. Roof tile residue, for example, has been widely used to create geopolymers in m...
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Eddy Yusslee and Sherif Beskhyroun
Alkali-activated materials (AAMs) have been widely used as an alternative to Portland cement. This production of AAMs emits lesser carbon dioxide by utilizing industrial waste products to make this cement binder technology greener and more sustainable. T...
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Ana Lourenço, Luís Silva, Vera Fernandes and Pedro Sequeira
The impact that construction has on sustainability as a relevant consumer of materials is well known, especially with regard to cement, which contributes to high CO2 emissions. It is well known that in tile adhesives, cement add positive technical contri...
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