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A Review on Emerging Cementitious Materials, Reactivity Evaluation and Treatment Methods
Buildings, 2023 Alternative to traditional concrete, sustainable concrete reduces cement content, waste management issues, and CO2 emissions. To achieve sustainable concrete, waste materials can be used as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to partially replace
Ashfaque Ahmed Jhatial +2 more
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Measurement Errors When Measuring Temperature in the Sun
SensorsIn the validation of microclimate simulation software, the comparison of simulation results with on-site measurements is a common practice. To ensure reliable validation, it is crucial to utilize high-quality temperature sensors with a deviation smaller ...
Florian Teichmann +3 more
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Energies, 2021 The development of energy-efficient buildings and sustainable energy supply systems is an obligatory undertaking towards a more sustainable future. To protect the natural environment, the modernization of urban infrastructure is indisputably important ...
Marcin Zygmunt, Dariusz Gawin
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Binder-Free Earth-Based Building Material with the Compressive Strength of Concrete
BuildingsThe construction industry consumes a substantial amount of resources. The associated environmental degradation and accelerating biodiversity loss highlight the urgent need for sustainable building materials that can match the performance of conventional ...
Simon Amort, Azra Korjenic, Erich Streit
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EnergiesOne of the main goals of heat and electricity producers in Latvia is to reduce the use of fossil fuels and introduce alternative fuel types that could help in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Jānis Jākobsons +4 more
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Abstract The market of wireless communications is driving the technology development toward higher bandwidths and carrier frequencies. Terahertz (THz) frequencies not only open new unused bands for this purpose but also allow higher bandwidths.
Enrique Castro-Camus +2 more
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Building Materials and Construction: The Four Building Challenges
, 2018 The chapter analyses the radical changes in the supply chain of building materials and construction between 1850 and 1910. It investigates the consequences for the four building challenges in this period: public hygiene, public housing, the struggle against water and the development of road infrastructure.
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Strengthening properties of glass-ceramics with near-zero thermal expansion
Materials & DesignThe hydrogen atomic clock microwave cavity serves as the interaction site between electromagnetic fields and hydrogen atoms, requiring materials with low coefficient of thermal expansion, high temperature variation resistance, and superior mechanical ...
Shengyun Yang +9 more
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Recent Advances in Phenylboronic Acid-Based Gels with Potential for Self-Regulated Drug Delivery
Molecules, 2019 Glucose-sensitive drug platforms are highly attractive in the field of self-regulated drug delivery. Drug carriers based on boronic acid (BA), especially phenylboronic acid (PBA), have been designed for glucose-sensitive self-regulated insulin delivery ...
Chenyu Wang +7 more
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Influence of additives on flexural strength of concrete
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 In earlier studies, the effect of chemical and mineral additives on the compressive strength of concretes was considered, but little attention was paid to the flexural strength of concrete.
Tolmachov Sergii +2 more
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