Handbook of advances in Alkali-activated Concrete Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering Series
Coordonnateurs : Pacheco-Torgal F., Chindaprasirt Prinya, Ozbakkaloglu Togay
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.
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
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.
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,
- 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
Date de parution : 12-2021
Ouvrage de 576 p.
15.2x22.8 cm