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Handbook of advances in Alkali-activated Concrete

  • 1st Edition - December 3, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: F. Pacheco-Torgal, Prinya Chindaprasirt, Togay Ozbakkaloglu
  • Language: English

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Description

Advances on Alkali-activated Concrete, provides comprehensive information on materials, structural properties and realistic potential for the application of alkali-activated concretes and cements. Divided over seven key parts, including the design of alkali-activated concrete, their fabrication and curing, rheology, properties of alkali-activated concrete, durability, dynamic performance and LCA, the book will be an essential reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists, chemists, manufacturers and civil engineers working with alkali-activated materials and concrete structures.

Key features

  • Provides an essential guide on the latest developments in alkali-activated concrete
  • Comprehensively examines alkali-activated concrete performance under cyclic loading
  • Includes concrete systems containing coarser aggregates
  • Presents several important cases studies of application

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists, chemists, manufacturers and civil engineers working with alkali-activated materials and concrete structures

Table of contents

Part I: Design, Rehology and Curing of Alkali-Activated Concrete

1. A Mix Design Procedure for Alkali-Activated Concrete Based on the Concept of Reactive Modulus

2. Mix design of fly ash-based alkali activated concrete

3. Alkali activated dry-mix concretes

4. Optimization of production parameters of alkali-activated concrete

5. Influence of precursors on rheology of alkali-activated concrete

6. Alkali-activated concrete via oven and microwave radiation curing

7. Oven-cured alkali-activated concretes

Part II: Properties of Alkali-Activated Concrete

8. Non-Conventional alkaline activating solutions for alkali-activated mortars and concretes

9. Ambient-cured alkali-activated concrete with single alkali activator

10. alkali-activated concrete versus opc concrete and roman concrete when using sea sand and sea water

11. One part alkali-activated concrete with seawater

12. Properties of lightweight fiber reinforced alkali-activated concrete

13. Properties of Alkali-activated Lightweight Concrete

14. Structural performance of waste based reinforced alkali-activated concrete

Part III: Durability and LCA of Alkali-Activated Concrete

16. Alkali-aggregate reaction in alkali-activated cement concretes

17. Chloride penetration in alkali-activated concrete

18. Resistance of alkali-activated concrete to seawater

19. Acid Resistance of alkali-activated concrete

20. Fire resistance of recycled aggregate alkali-activated concrete

21. LCA of lightweight alkali-activated concrete

22. LCA of fiber-reinforced alkali activated concrete

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 6, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

FP

F. Pacheco-Torgal

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects.
Affiliations and expertise
C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

PC

Prinya Chindaprasirt

Professor Prinya Chindaprasirt is the Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Research and Development Center (SIRDC), a research unit in Khon Kaen University. He is now also the head of Advanced Functional Materials research cluster of Khon Kaen University. He was appointed a full professor in 2007. In 2009 he was the first person in civil engineering who was appointed the highest rank professor in Thailand. He has set up the Thai Geopolymer Network in 2005 to promote the research and collaboration among Thai researchers in this field.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Research and Development Center (SIRDC), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

TO

Togay Ozbakkaloglu

Togay Ozbakkaloglu is a Professor at the Ingram School of Engineering of Texas State University, USA. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed research papers in these areas, including over 125 journal articles that appeared in leading disciplinary journals and received over 4000 citations (Scopus). He is Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (the foremost structural engineering journal), Heliyon, Frontiers in Built Environment, and Australian Journal of Civil Engineering. He also serves on the Editorial Board of 12 international journals, including the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, the leading journal in his immediate research field of structural applications of FRP composites.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA

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