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Daniel Suarez-Riera, Luca Lavagna, Juan Felipe Carvajal, Jean-Marc Tulliani, Devid Falliano and Luciana Restuccia
Biochar, the solid sub-product of biomass pyrolysis, is widely considered an effective water retention material thanks to its porous microstructure and high specific surface area. This study investigates the possibility of improving both mechanical and r...
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Nara Cangussu, Ana Mafalda Matos, Paula Milheiro-Oliveira and Lino Maia
The mixture design of cement-based materials can be complex due to the increasing number of constituent raw materials and multiple requirements in terms of engineering performance and economic and environmental efficiency. Designing experiments based on ...
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Alexandros Z. Spyropoulos, Evangelos Ioannidis and Ioannis Antoniou
The early intervention of law enforcement authorities to prevent an impending terrorist attack is of utmost importance to ensuring economic, financial, and social stability. From our previously published research, the key individuals who play a vital rol...
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Aghiad Alhafez, Shingo Miyazawa, Nobukazu Nito, Ryuichiroh Kuga and Etsuo Sakai
Cement with fly ash has rarely been used in Japan, mainly because its strength development is slower than ordinary Portland cement. In this research, the effect of the new type of fly ash (which was modified by the electrostatic belt separation method) w...
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Endah Safitri, Ridan Adi Kusworo and Stefanus Adi Kristiawan
Repair materials have been developed in this research by adding micro-synthetic fibers in cement-based mortar. In addition, accelerator is incorporated in the mortar to obtain high early strength of the repair materials. Their shrinkage behavior is of in...
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Huaying Wu, Zhongcheng Jiang, Qibo Huang, Funing Lan, Hongwei Liao, Tengfang Li and Chenhui Huang
The chemical weathering of carbonate rocks is the main form of interaction between earth spheres in the karst critical zone. The karst weathering cover, which is composed by residua from carbonate rocks weathering, contains important information about th...
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Thamer Alomayri, Babar Ali, Syed Safdar Raza, Hawreen Ahmed and Moustafa Hamad
Seawater mixed (SW) concrete lessens the freshwater (FW) demand and eases the stress on the already depleting FW resources. The use of SW concrete is a sustainable solution that mitigates the environmental impact of concrete production, especially in coa...
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Veerendrakumar C. Khed, Vyshnavi Pesaralanka, Musa Adamu, Yasser E. Ibrahim, Marc Azab, M. Achyutha Kumar Reddy, Ahmad Hakamy and Ahmed Farouk Deifalla
Self-compacting concrete (SCC) was developed to overcome the challenges of concrete placement in dense or congested reinforcement structure, where the concrete can flow under its own weight to fill the densely reinforced structure. However, production of...
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João Miguel Peres Medeiros and Luigi Di Sarno
A greener and more sustainable option is proposed to shift the construction paradigm of high embedded carbon values in concrete and the frequency of repairs when it cracks. Using low-carbon concrete with a bacterial self-healing agent can reduce the embe...
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Yung-Chih Wang, Ming-Gin Lee, Wei-Chien Wang, Yu-Cheng Kan, Shih-Hsuan Kao and Hsien-Wen Chang
This study was to evaluate the CO2 curing on mechanical properties of Portland cement concrete. Three different specimen sizes (5 × 10 cm, 10 × 20 cm, and 15 × 30 cm cylinders), three CO2 concentrations (50%, 75%, 100%), three curing pressures (0.2, 0.4,...
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