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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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Barrie Dams, Binling Chen, Paul Shepherd and Richard J. Ball
Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods in the construction industry typically employ ground-based deposition methods. An alternative to transform the role of AM in construction is to introduce an aerial capability. A recent project titled Aerial Additive Ma...
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Rabeb Ayed, Salwa Bouadila, Safa Skouri, Laura Boquera, Luisa F. Cabeza and Mariem Lazaar
By enhancing the thermal properties of cement-based building materials, energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions related to space conditioning in buildings can be alleviated. This study aims to present cement-based composites reinforced by t...
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Slawomir Czarnecki, Adrian Chajec, Seweryn Malazdrewicz and Lukasz Sadowski
This paper predicts the abrasion resistance of a cementitious composite containing granite powder and fly ash replacing up to 30% of the cement weight. For this purpose, intelligent artificial neural network (ANN) models were used and compared. A databas...
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Poliana Bellei, Isabel Torres, Runar Solstad and Inês Flores-Colen
The oyster shell is a residue rich in calcium carbonate, which can be reused as a raw material for creating building materials. For this reason, many researchers focused on the incorporation of oyster shell in the composition of composites, as it is a me...
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Alba Patrizia Santo, Beatrice Agostini, Carlo Alberto Garzonio, Elena Pecchioni and Teresa Salvatici
Serpentinite is a low-grade metamorphic rock derived from the transformation of ultramafic rocks. Mainly because of its aesthetic characteristics it has been widely used as a building and ornamental stone. ?Verde di Prato? is the most common local name u...
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Bolin Wang, Mingang Zhai, Xiaofei Yao, Qing Wu, Min Yang, Xiangyu Wang, Jizhuo Huang and Hongyu Zhao
Three-dimensional concrete printing is a promising technology and attracts the significant attention of research and industry. However, printable and mechanical capacities are required for 3D printable cementitious materials. Moreover, the quantitative a...
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Tiago Trigo, Inês Flores-Colen, Luís Silva, Nuno Vieira, Ana Raimundo and Giovanni Borsoi
The production of Portland cement (OP) is commonly associated to significant level of energy consumption and gas emissions. The use of calcium sulfoaluminate cement (CSA) can be a sustainable alternative binder, since its production releases about half o...
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Giulia Masi
Alkali activated materials as possible sustainable alternative to cementitious binders showed competitive performances in terms of mechanical and durability properties and high temperature stability. For this reason, light weight fly-ash based mortars ha...
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Zahid M. Mir, Celestino Gomes, Alexandre C. Bastos, Rui Sampaio, Frederico Maia, Cláudia Rocha, João Tedim, Daniel Höche, Mario G. S. Ferreira and Mikhail L. Zheludkevich
In this work, the ZnAl-NO2 LDH (layered double hydroxide) is investigated as a possible additive for mitigating the chloride-induced corrosion of steel in reinforced concrete. The investigation focused on the stability and chloride binding capacity of th...
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