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The Challenge of Grinding Ternary Blends Containing Calcined Clays and Limestone

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Juan Alberto Ribalta Quesada

The inclusion of high specific surface materials such as calcined clays in cementitious systems enhances the hydration of clinker products at very early ages, but it may also increase water demand; thus, the pursuit of a flowing concrete may demand an incr ...

MDPI2022

Numerical Analysis of the Influence of Surface Roughness on Shear Strength of Cracked Concrete

Guillaume Anciaux, Mohit Pundir

Aggregate interlock is the mechanism via which normal and shear stresses are transferred across the lips of cracks in concrete . The fractal property of cracking surfaces in concrete plays a significant role in shear transfer across surfaces. Because of th ...

2019

Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity

Maxime Carl Felder

“Think of a city and what comes to mind?” asks Jane Jacobs (1961: 29). “Its streets. If a city’s streets look interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull, the city looks dull.” In our opinion, Jacobs should have answered: its commercial stre ...

Springer2018

Utilisation of alkali activated glass powder in binary mixtures with Portland cement, slag, fly ash and hydrated lime

Hamed Maraghechi

This paper evaluates feasibility of alkali activation to boost the reactivity and cementitious properties of recycled glass powder ( GP), when it is used in four different binary mixtures with ordinary Portland cement ( OPC), alkali activated slag or fly a ...

Springer2017

Modelling of the in-plane behaviour of masonry walls strengthened with polymeric grids embedded in cementitious mortar layers

Angelo Garofano

The seismic reinforcement of masonry walls needs to be carried out through appropriate and effective techniques aiming at providing both adequate strength and displacement capacity. The present research concerns experimental results about the in-plane beha ...

Elsevier2016

Development of a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test method to evaluate the pozzolanic reactivity of calcined kaolinitic clays

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings, Mohsen Ben Haha, François Henri Avet, Adrian Alujas Diaz

The present paper introduces a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test to predict the pozzolanic activity of calcined clays with kaolinite contents ranging from 0 to 95%. The test is based on the correlation between the chemical reactivity of calcined ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Properties of mortars produced with reactivated cementitious materials

Ricardo Javier Serpell Carriquiry

The production of reactivated cementitious materials is an option for the recycling of hydrated-cement-rich fines discarded during recycled aggregate production. Reactivation is based on a thermal process where calcium silicate hydrates present in the fine ...

2015

Optical properties of small metal clusters

Chongqi Yu

This thesis is devoted to the study of the optical properties of small metal clusters and metal cluster organic compounds. For this purpose a ultra-high vacuum (UHV) experimental apparatus has been built which allows for the deposition of mass selected neu ...

EPFL2015

Effectiveness of composite grids embedded in mortar layers for strengthening of masonry walls

Angelo Garofano

The strengthening method characterized by the application of composite grid reinforced mortar layers onto the surface of masonry walls is a quite new technique and, thus, still requires deep experimental and numerical investigation. This strengthening tech ...

2014

FE modelling of masonry panels externally bonded with FRP grid

Angelo Garofano

Within the strengthening techniques of masonry elements with Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) materials, the use of FRP grid applied with cement based mortar seems to be very promising and interesting, mainly due to the compatibility of the mortar with the m ...

2014

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