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 ...
Miller, Sabbie A +3 more
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Thinking about materiality: the value of a construction management and engineering view [PDF]
Construction Management and Economics, 2017 AbstractThe increased interest for materiality as an analytical category in the social sciences provide construction management and economics scholar with new possibilities to better exploit the detailed empirical data being collected in the construction industry and related fields.
Alexander Styre
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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.
E. N. Eskova +4 more
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Materials Selection and Scaffold Construction for Liver Tissue Engineering
Materials Science Forum, 2005 To design the scaffold with suitable properties for the development of tissue engineered livers, materials design, selection and scaffold construct are three dispensable steps to be followed consequently. Firstly, some natural materials such as collagen, chitosan and alignate as well as some prevailing aliphatic polyester such as poly(lactic acid) (PLA)
Qingling Feng
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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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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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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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Proceedings of the Sustainable Concrete Materials and Structures in Construction 2020 [PDF]
, 2020 Seminar on Sustainable Concrete Materials and Structures in Concrete Construction 2020 was held virtually for the first time on 24 August 2020. This event was organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Built Environment (FKAAB), Universiti Tun ...
Mohd Zuki, Sharifah Salwa +3 more
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