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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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Pavels Tihomirovs, Patricia Kara De Maeijer and Aleksandrs Korjakins
Waste glass is an endless issue for the majority of the countries in the world with a linear economy of usage of materials. Demolition waste is counted as part of total construction and demolition waste (CDW). Even today, there are some statistical probl...
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Waleed Sulaiman Mustafa, János Szendefy and Balázs Nagy
The use of glass waste in the construction industry has a high potential of leading to a higher recycling percentage. Foam glass aggregate (FGA) is around 98% recycled glass waste of various origins and has good insulation properties with big grain size ...
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Mohsen Shamsaei, Alan Carter and Michel Vaillancourt
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) materials account for a considerable part of waste materials throughout the world. As these materials are not usually recycled, reusing them in construction projects is of major significance. In this study, recycle...
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Sujeong Pyeon, Gyuyong Kim, Sangsoo Lee and Jeongsoo Nam
High-strength concrete (HSC) uses binders and microfillers with ultrafine particles, such as silica fume. The resulting dense internal hydration structure rapidly decreases HSC humidity, causing shrinkage cracks and affecting internal hydration. Herein, ...
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Michelina Catauro, Giovanni Dal Poggetto, Severina Pacifico, Fernanda Andreola, Isabella Lancellotti and Luisa Barbieri
In this study, we compared the chemical-physical, antibacterial, and cytotoxicity properties of silico-aluminous and silicate materials for outdoor (green roof, planted walls) and indoor (urban farms, indoor microgreen gardens) cultivation purpose in a c...
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Chih-Ling Huang
Photonic crystals employ optical properties based on optical, physical, chemical, and material science. Nanosilica particles have a high specific surface area and are widely used in nanotechnology research and biomedical applications. In this study, nano...
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Domenico Vizzari, Emmanuel Chailleux, Stéphane Lavaud, Eric Gennesseaux and Stephane Bouron
Solar roads are transportation infrastructures able both to generate electricity thanks to solar cells placed under a semi-transparent layer and to ensure heavy traffic circulation. In this paper, a novel transparent top layer made of glass aggregates bo...
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Petros Petrounias, Panagiota P. Giannakopoulou, Aikaterini Rogkala, Paraskevi Lampropoulou, Basilios Tsikouras, Ioannis Rigopoulos and Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou
This paper examined three different types of recycled materials, such as beer green glass, waste tile, and asphalt, which will be used in different mixtures in order to prepare concrete specimens and, more specifically, their effect on concrete strength ...
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Andrés Coves-Campos, Luis Bañón, José Andrés Coves-García and Salvador Ivorra
Road markings play an important role in road safety because they provide significant information to drivers about the road. For that reason, they must be replaced when they are not correctly perceived by road users. To analyse which are the main factors ...
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