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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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Heng Cheng, Yan Wang, Yi Liu, Qiujing Zhou, Jing Zhang and Bo Yang
Alkali-aggregate reaction can not only cause uneven expansion of concrete but also lead to cracking and even destruction and consequently affect the working behavior and long-term safety of hydraulic concrete structures. Present researches on alkali-aggr...
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Robert E. Melchers and Henry Humphrey
The alkali?aggregate reactivity (AAR) of concrete, long known for mass concrete, can also induce corrosion of steel in reinforced concrete structures. Several examples are given for which the origin of observed reinforcement corrosion and loss of concret...
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Yang Li, Jiaqi Chai, Ruijun Wang, Yu Zhou and Xiaogen Tong
As the number of discarded tyres continues to increase, causing serious environmental problems, the need of recycling the waste tyre rubber become extremely urgent in worldwide. Today, there is an increasing focus on recyclable materials. The reuse of wa...
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Christopher M. Collins and Md. Safiuddin
A universal infrastructural issue is wetting of surfaces; millions of dollars are invested annually for rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructures including roadways and buildings to fix the damages caused by moisture and frost. The biomimicry of ...
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Fernando A. N. Silva, João M. P. Q. Delgado, António C. Azevedo, Tahlaiti Mahfoud, Abdelhafid Khelidj, Nicole Nascimento and António G. B. Lima
Early deterioration of reinforced concrete foundations has been often reported in recent years. This process is usually characterized by an extensive mapping cracking process on concrete surfaces that results from several types of Internal Swelling React...
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Esperanza Menéndez, Miguel Ángel Sanjuán, Ricardo García-Roves, Cristina Argiz and Hairon Recino
In this paper, the idea of the sustainability of durable solutions is very much present. The effect of four pozzolanic materials employed in four percentages in mortars made with two different reactive aggregates is assessed regarding alkali-silica react...
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Alexander S. Brand and Ebenezer O. Fanijo
The type of steel furnace slag (SFS), including electric arc furnace (EAF) slag, basic oxygen furnace (BOF) slag, ladle metallurgy furnace (LMF) slag, and argon oxygen decarburization (AOD) slag, can significantly affect the composite properties when use...
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Robert E Melchers
The sustainability of reinforced concrete is critical, particularly for structures exposed to marine environments. Chlorides are implicated in causing or accelerating reinforcement corrosion and potentially earlier expensive repairs, yet there are many o...
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Nuno Cristelo, João Coelho, Mafalda Oliveira, Nilo Cesar Consoli, Ángel Palomo and Ana Fernández-Jiménez
Mine tailings (MT) could represent a step forward in terms of the quality of the aggregates usually used in civil engineering applications, mostly due to its high density. The Portuguese Neves Corvo copper mine, owned by the Lundin Mining Corporation, pr...
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