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Pujitha Ganapathi Chottemada, Arkamitra Kar and Patricia Kara De Maeijer
The scientific community is shifting its focus towards construction materials with a low carbon footprint, such as alkali-activated concrete (AAC). The present study conducts an environmental impact assessment using the cradle-to-grave approach to examin...
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Kruthi Kiran Ramagiri, Patricia Kara De Maeijer and Arkamitra Kar
Alkali-activated binders (AABs) offer the opportunity to upcycle a variety of residues into products that can have added value. Although AABs are reported to have a superior high-temperature performance, their thermal behavior is heavily governed by thei...
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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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Kruthi Kiran Ramagiri, Ravali Chintha, Radha Kiranmaye Bandlamudi, Patricia Kara De Maeijer and Arkamitra Kar
The negative environmental impacts associated with the usage of Portland cement (PC) in concrete induced intensive research into finding sustainable alternative concrete mixes to obtain ?green concrete?. Since the principal aim of developing such mixes i...
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Feng Zhang, Xun Xi and Shangtong Yang
In this paper, the recent research progress on the corrosion of reinforced alkali-activated materials (AAMs) concrete structures is reviewed. The corrosion mechanisms induced by carbonation and chloride ingress in AAMs concrete are discussed, from the pe...
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Biruk Hailu Tekle, Klaus Holschemacher, Philipp Löber and Björn Heiden
Concrete is the most commonly used construction material because of its various advantages, such as versatility, familiarity, strength, and durability, and it will continue to be in demand far into the future. However, with today?s sensitivity to environ...
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Zhenming Li, Xingliang Yao, Yun Chen, Tianshi Lu and Guang Ye
Alkali-activated slag and fly ash (AASF) materials are emerging as promising alternatives to conventional Portland cement. Despite the superior mechanical properties of AASF materials, they are known to show large autogenous shrinkage, which hinders the ...
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Adelino V. Lopes, Sergio M. R. Lopes and Isabel Pinto
Fly ash is a byproduct from burning pulverized coal in the electric power industry and can be incorporated in cementitious concretes or in alkali activated concretes (AAC) with obvious environmental advantages. When part of AAC, it will be able to lead t...
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Patricia Kara De Maeijer
This Special Issue ?Recent Advances and Future Trends in Pavement Engineering? has been proposed and organized to present recent developments in the field of innovative pavement materials and engineering. For this reason, the articles and state-of-the-ar...
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Ramamohana Reddy Bellum, Ruben Nerella, Sri Rama Chand Madduru and Chandra Sekhar Reddy Indukuri
Cement is one of the construction materials widely used around the world in order to develop infrastructure and it is also one of the factors affecting economies. The production of cement consumes a lot of raw materials like limestone, which releases CO2...
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