As society moves towards decarbonisation, it is important to assess the hydromechanical behaviour of binders that could offer a low-carbon alternative Portland cement in ground improvement technologies. This work considers two such alternatives: one still largely unexplored (metakaolin-based geopolymers) and better known (colloidal silica). Results from unconfined compressive strength, permeabi...

Gas evolved from the thermal decomposition of the binder can greatly deteriorate the quality of sand castings. Binder gas models used in casting simulations require knowledge of the binder gas mass and molecular weight evolution, but available data are limited. In the present study, the mass and molecular weight of gas evolved from phenolic urethane no-bake (PUNB) bonded sand are measured as a ...

Different ancient mortar samples of Pamplona’s San Cernin church have been analyzed to characterize their binder and aggregate fractions. A complete characterization has been carried out including chemical (rapid approximate analysis, soluble salts and trace elements, using traditional chemical procedures, ionic chromatography and spectrophotometry techniques), mineralogical-petrographic (struc...

The potential for using MgO and SiO 2 , recovered from olivine, was investigated use as a cementitious binder system. to proportion the fixed at 1:1. nature of hydration products were characterized variety techniques including isothermal calorimetry, XRD, FTIR, SEM. primary binding component paste determined be magnesium silicate hydrate (M-S-H). silica exhibited faster reactivity compared comm...

Three Eu(II1) luminescent compounds were separately entrapped in a xerogel porous silica matrix and finely ground particles of it were deposited on a glass support with polyvinylacetate (PVAc) as a binder to build a thin film sensor. These 3 devices were immersed in aqueous solutions of Cu(I1) and the content of this metal was evaluated by emissionquenching experiments. The sensor containing th...

The objectives of the present research is to appreciate the effect of synthesizing parameters on setting time and workability of Fly ash based geopolymer paste . Locally available low calcium fly ash from a thermal power plant located near Kolkata, India, was used . Fly ash used are lignite coal based and falls under class F category. The broad areas of present research include: Manufacturing o...

The utilization of cement in concrete was an ancient method as well the cementitious materials not only improves mechanical properties but also workability and durability etc., Today urbanization expands many folds, so that usage became more due to this production increases. on one hand affects environment form Carbon dioxide gases other depreciation raw like lime stone sand etc. Globally const...