Opportunities and challenges for engineering construction materials as carbon sinks
RILEM Technical Letters, 2021 Population growth and urbanization over the coming decades are anticipated to drive unprecedented demand for infrastructure materials and energy resources. Unfortunately, factors such as the degree of resource consumption, the energy-intensive nature of production, and the chemical-reaction driven emissions make infrastructure materials production ...
Sabbie A. Miller +3 more
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Ecological engineering in the construction and exploitation of roads with technogenic materials
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 Abstract The article describes the developed engineering technological measures. They increase the operation life of road structures with the use of technogenic non-toxic materials. It is recommended to use activating additives to accelerate the process of road mixtures hardening.
I.I. Shepelev +4 more
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Property and Structure Characterization of High Molecular Weight Polyacrylonitrile Polymers Initiated by 2,2'-Azobis (2-methyl propionamide) Dihydrochloride Using Aqueous Deposited Polymerization Technique [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2022 Powdery high molecular weight polyacrylonitrile (HMW-PAN) polymers were successfully synthesized by aqueous deposited polymerization (ADP) method with 2,2'-azobis (2-methyl propionamide) dihydrochloride (AIBA) as the initiator and itaconic acid (IA) as ...
Zhao Yaqi +3 more
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Environmental and Economic Sustainability Aspects in Lime-Based Construction Materials [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2023 Lime-based construction materials (LBM) range from concrete blocks to mortars and plasters used in building new structures or to conserve our cultural heritage.
Laveglia Agustin +5 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 The inherent quasi-brittleness of cement-based materials, due to the disorder of their hydration products and pore structures, present significant challenges for directional matrix toughening.
Yuan Chen +7 more
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A percolation-based micromechanical model for elastic stiffness and conductivity of foam concrete
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 Void morphology effect on percolation and even physico-mechanical performance of foam concrete is of great interest in the evaluation of service-life of civil and hydraulic infrastructures.
Fengjuan Wang +4 more
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U.Porto Journal of Engineering, 2023 The main aim of the present study is to design an innovative self-compacting material modified with recycled steel fibers (RSF) from waste tires and spent equilibrium catalyst (Ecat) from the petrochemical industry for ultra-high performance application.
Hassan Abdolpour +3 more
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A method to computationally screen for tunable properties of crystalline alloys [PDF]
Patterns (2023), 2022 Conventionally, high-throughput computational materials searches start from an input set of bulk compounds extracted from material databases, and this set is screened for candidate materials for specific applications. In contrast, many functional materials, and especially semiconductors, are heavily engineered alloys or solid solutions of multiple ...
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The response of clay plaster to temperature and RH sinusoidal variations [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 Hygroscopic finishing materials can be used to moderate indoor humidity levels; they have the capacity to adsorb and release moisture from and to the surrounding air, depending on the indoor relative humidity levels.
Cascione Valeria +4 more
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Research on Testing Technology of Building Engineering Materials [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 With the rapid development of China's economy, the construction of urbanization is also accelerating, and social development puts forward higher standards for construction projects.
Shan Renwei
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