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Piergiorgio Tataranni
Paving blocks are today a popular paving solution for urban surfaces. Considering the wide variety of products currently on the market, it is possible to build pavements that differ in terms of functionality, bearing capacity, skid resistance, visual imp...
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Arman Hatami Shirkouh, Farshad Meftahi, Ahmed Soliman, Stéphane Godbout and Joahnn Palacios
The increasing scarcity of virgin natural resources and the need for sustainable waste management in densely populated urban areas have heightened the importance of developing new recycling technologies. One promising approach involves recycling agricult...
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Dany Kassim, Ghandy Lamaa, Rui Vasco Silva and Jorge de Brito
The use of electric arc furnace slag (EAFS) as sole precursor to produce alkali-activated mortars has been experimentally investigated. EAFS, a by-product of the steel recycling industry, is a coarse material with unevenly distributed and size-extensive ...
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Vitor A. Nunes, Prannoy Suraneni, Augusto C. S. Bezerra, Carlos Thomas and Paulo H. R. Borges
Steel slag (SS) is a secondary material from steelmaking production with little commercial value. Its volumetric expansion and low reactivity limit the use of SS in Portland cement (PC)-based materials. This study investigated the potential use of basic ...
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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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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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Agnese Attanasio, Livio Pascali, Vito Tarantino, Wanda Arena and Alessandro Largo
There is a growing interest in the construction sector in the use of sustainable binders as an alternative to ordinary Portland cement, the production of which is highly impacting on the environment, due to high carbon dioxide emissions and energy consum...
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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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Yanbing Zhao, Caiqian Yang, Kefeng Li, Jing Yang, Zhiren Wu and Chengyu Yan
The coal gangue after composite activation treatment is considered a potential low-carbon and green cementitious material, so the feasibility of employing composite-activated gangue to partially or entirely replace cement for building materials is system...
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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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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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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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Nabil Bella, Edwin Gudiel, Lourdes Soriano, Alba Font, María Victoria Borrachero, Jordi Paya and José Maria Monzó
Worldwide cement production is around 4.2 billion tons, and the fabrication of one ton of ordinary Portland cement emits around 900 kg of CO2. Blast furnace slag (BFS) is a byproduct used to produce alkali-activated materials (AAM). BFS production was es...
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Andres Salas Montoya, Loth I. Rodríguez-Barboza, Fabiola Colmenero Fonseca, Javier Cárcel-Carrasco and Lauren Y. Gómez-Zamorano
In recent decades, alkali activated and blended cements have attracted great interest worldwide due to their advantages of low energy cost, high strength, and good durability. This study evaluated the effects of replacing 50% of Portland cement with a mi...
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Catarina C. Novo, Luciano Senff, Maria P. Seabra, Rui M. Novais and João A. Labrincha
This work aims to further decrease the environmental footprint of alkali-activated materials by using an industrial wastewater to partially replace a commercial activator.
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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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M. Torres-Carrasco, F. Puertas
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Portland cement is considered an excellence building material. This is due mainly to its high performance, its good quality/price ratio and the raw materials from which it is made can be found almost everywhere in the world. However, the development of a...
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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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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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Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) releases hydrochloric acid (HCl) during its thermal degradation, and hydrochloric acid can react with hydration products of alkali-activated binders. According to this characteristic of PVC and the temperature change that occurs ...
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