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The Path to Green Concrete
- 1st Edition - June 4, 2024
- Editors: Jorge de Brito, Francisco Agrela, Rui Vasco Silva
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 1 6 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 1 6 6 - 4
The Path to Green Concrete will enlighten the scientific community on recent developments in this field. Within this volume, world-renowned experts summarize recent research… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Path to Green Concrete will enlighten the scientific community on recent developments in this field. Within this volume, world-renowned experts summarize recent research findings covering key topics such as: alkali-activated materials using aluminosilicate waste precursors; use of novel cost-effective and eco-efficient supplementary cementitious materials; state of the art characterization techniques and assessment methodologies; advances on the use of biomass ashes, steel slags and waste glass; the role of carbon capture in the production of concrete and mortar; development of eco-efficient composites for specialized applications; recycling of the fine fraction of construction and demolition wastes; and sustainable self-healing concrete.
This book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, civil and structural engineers, manufacturers, and other construction professionals working in the development of sustainable construction materials.
- Presents recent developments on eco-efficient cementitious composites
- Places an emphasis on complete replacement of cement, with the use of alkali-activated materials
- Includes novel enhancing techniques, along with 3D printing and characterization methods
Academic and industrial researchers working in sustainable construction materials, civil and structural engineers, manufacturers, and other construction professionals, Postgraduate students in materials science and engineering
Section 1 - Developments on green supplementary cementitious materials
1. Reactive magnesia
Miguel Bravo and Bruna A. Silva
2. Stainless Steel Slag
Francisco Agrela Sainz and Julia Rosales
3. Alkali activation of slag
Francisca Puertas
4. New and More Sustainable Paths for the Development of Alkali Activated Cements
Nuno Cristelo, Jhonathan Rivera and Inés Garcia-Lodeiro
5. Alkali-activated aluminosilicate industrial wastes as alternative binders in precast paving blocks
Rui Vasco Silva
6. Granulation of incinerated municipal solid waste bottom ash with one-part alkali activation technology
Priyadharshini Perumal, Suman kumar Adhikary and Mirja Illikainen
Section 2 - Construction, demolition and industrial wastes as aggregates in cementitious composites
7. 3D printing concrete with by-products
Belén Gonzalez-Fonteboa
8. Steel slag aggregate in concrete
Flora Faleschini, Mariano Angelo Zanini and Daniel Trento
9. Microtomography of eco-efficient concrete
Carlos Thomas
10. Mining waste as aggregate for concrete
Lina M. Trujillo López, Jesús Suárez-González, Carlos López-Colina, Ismael García, Miguel Serrano and Fernando Lopez Gayarre
Section 3 - Advances on eco-efficient concrete
11. Ultra-high-performance concrete
Caijun Shi and Xuanhan Zhang
12. Self-healing concrete
Gurkan Yildirim and Behlul Furkan Ozel
13. Cellular concrete
Maria Victoria Borrachero Sr.
14. Graphene in eco-efficient concrete
Manuel Cruz
15. Nanoindentation of concrete with sustainable supplementary cementitious materials
Wengui Li, Zhiyu Luo, Yipu Guo, Xuqun Lin, Xiaonan Wang, Hanbing Zhao and Xuanrui Zhang
16. Pervious concrete with alternative materials
Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri and Avishreshth Singh
- No. of pages: 630
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 4, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443191657
- eBook ISBN: 9780443191664
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Jorge de Brito
Jorge de Brito is Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was Head of the ICIST Research Centre from 2009 to 2012.
Affiliations and expertise
Technical University of Lisbon, PortugalFA
Francisco Agrela
Francisco Agrela is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cordoba, Spain. He received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Cordoba. He is the author of over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has published a chapter in the Handbook of Recycled Concrete and Demolition Waste (Woodhead). He collaborates with several journals as reviewer, including Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), Waste Management (Elsevier), Materials and Design (Elsevier), Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Elsevier). He belongs to the RAC committee of RILEM and AFN-20 of TRB. He has visited and collaborated with several Universities such as the TU Delft, University Polytechnic of Hong Kong, University of Granada, and IST of Lisbon.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Cordoba, SpainRS
Rui Vasco Silva
Rui Vasco Silva is a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his PhD on the use of recycled aggregates derived from construction, demolition, and excavation waste in the production of structural concrete. He is a member of the CERIS Research and Development Unit, hosted by IST-ID, and an honorary member of the CIB Student Chapter at IST. He has notable experience in FCT-funded Research Projects and is currently Managing Director of the Rinopolycrete project PTDC/ECI-CON/29196/2017 and is Principal Investigator of the upcoming research project ECO2Alkrete. He is the author of several publications concerning sustainable construction and is currently researching other approaches that can further decrease the environmental impact of concrete, namely reactive magnesium oxide, alkali-activated materials, municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ashes and electric arc furnace slag.
Affiliations and expertise
Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal