Seawater-based concrete has been increasingly employed in offshore construction engineering, especially where the materials and freshwater are inconvenient to access. In this paper, a full-field compressive deformation evaluation scheme was constructed by introducing digital image correlation (DIC) technique uniaxial compression test for four kinds of seawater fabricated ordinary Portland cemen...

The present study evaluated the progression of osteogenic cell cultures exposed to a novel calcium aluminate cement (CAC+) in comparison with the gold standard mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA). Cells were enzimatically isolated from newborn rat calvarial bone, plated on glass coverslips containing either CAC+ or a control MTA samples in the center, and grown under standard osteogenic conditions...

background: introducing new endodontic cements should await comprehensive investigations and new formulations have to be tested in vivo before applying in human beings. so, the purpose of this study was to compare the biocompatibility of new endodontic cements, calcium aluminate α-aluminate cement (caac), calcium aluminate α-aluminate plus cement (caac plus), and a mixture of wollastonite and c...

Colloidal silica bonded refractory castables have been developed recently. It was found that colloidal silica is one of the best binders can substitute other binders such as cement in No Cement Castable (NCC) and Ultra Low Cement Castable (ULCC) refractories. Also composition of colloidal silica with appropriate additives resulted in a gel form which makes the initial strength. Moreover, the na...

The cementitious materials under consideration by Caltrans for rigid pavement construction may be classified into four categories: Portland cements and blends, calcium aluminate cements and blends, calcium sulfoaluminate cements, and fly ash-based cements. With the exception of Portland cements, most of the cementitious materials under consideration have not been extensively used for pavement c...

Calcium aluminate cements (CACs) are a group of rapid-hardening hydraulic binders with higher aluminum composition and lower ecological footprint compared to their ordinary Portland cement (CEM) counterparts. CACs commonly known have thermo-durability properties but previously been observed experience major strength loss over time when exposed thermal humidity conditions due the chemical conver...

AIM To evaluate the physical and mechanical properties of two cements with a similar chemical composition to mineral trioxide aggregate and to attempt to improve their properties by producing a composite material. METHODOLOGY Two cement types were used: a mixture of calcium sulpho-aluminate cement and Portland cement (CSA) and calcium fluoro-aluminate cement (CFA) in conjunction with an admix...

A modified direct contact test was used to evaluate the antibacterial properties of four commercially available dental luting agents (RelyX Unicem, Ketac Cem, Ceramir Crown & Bridge and Harvard Cement) and two reference materials (glass-ionomer cement and calcium aluminate cement) compared to a negative-control material (PMMA). Streptococcus mutans bacteria were placed in direct contact with sp...