Handbook of advances in Alkali-activated Concrete

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.

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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. 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, including the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, the leading journal in his immediate research field of structural applications of FRP composites.

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The first edition of the Handbook of Alkali-Activated Cements, Mortars and Concrete was published in 2014. The structure of the first edition was based on investigations that were mainly made by chemistry and materials science experts. Very few researchers from civil engineering were involved in this field of research at that time, so the first edition had a very limited number of chapters on concrete formulations or concrete performance. In fact, many of the chapters had nothing to do with concrete at all.

However, since 2014 many researchers from civil engineering have been studying alkali-activated concrete mixtures and this knowledge now needs to be digested and curated in order to avoid duplicated investigations. With a brand-new author-base the new edition of this book will provide comprehensive information on the material and structural properties and realistic potential for application of alkali-activated concretes and cements. Divided over seven key parts including: design of alkali-activated concrete; 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.

Inhalt

Part 1 Design of alkali-activated concrete

1. Optimization of production parameters of geopolymer concrete
2. Effect of alkali activator ratio on mechanical properties of GGBS based geopolymer concrete
3. Factors affecting the long-term compressive strength of heat-cured fly ash geopolymer concrete

4. Multi-response optimization for composition of fly ash-ground granulated blast furnace slag based geopolymer concrete

   Part 2 Fabrication and curing of alkali-activated concrete

5. Study on the optimum initial curing condition for fly ash and GGBS based geopolymer recycled aggregate concrete
6. Development of precast geopolymer concrete via oven and microwave radiation curing with an environmental assessment
7. Ambient- and oven-cured geopolymer concretes under active confinement

8. Ambient-cured geopolymer concrete with single alkali activator

   Part 3 Rheology of alkali-activated concrete

9. Effects of ceramic tile powder waste on the workability of self-compacted alkali-activated concrete
10. Influences of Parameters on Slump of Aluminosilicate Based Flowable Geopolymer Concrete
11. Workability studies of geopolymer concrete with recycled coarse aggregate and quarry stone dust
12. The effects of precursors on rheology and self-compactness of geopolymer concrete

13. Workability of alkali activated GGBS based self-compacting geopolymer concrete using nano-silica

    Part 4 Properties of alkali-activated concrete

14. Creep of synthetic fibre-reinforced geopolymer concrete
15. Early age cracking in geopolymer concrete due to restrained shrinkage
16. Properties of fiber reinforced metakaolin-based geopolymer concrete
17. Effect of hybrid fibers on shear behaviour of geopolymer concrete beams
18. Properties of fly ash-based lightweight geopolymer concrete reinforced by polypropylene fibers
19. Flexural Capacity of Geopolymer Concrete Beams Reinforced with Glass Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Bars

20. Flexural strength and failure of geopolymer concrete beams reinforced with carbon fibre-reinforced polymer bars

    Part 5 Durability of alkali-activated concrete

21. Freeze-thaw resistance of Class F fly ash-based geopolymer concrete
22. Frost resistance of fiber-reinforced blended slag and Class F fly ash-based geopolymer concrete
23. Spalling behavior of metakaolin-fly ash based geopolymer concrete under elevated temperature exposure

24. Steel fibre reinforced alkali-activated geopolymer concrete slabs subjected to natural gas explosion

    Part 6 Dynamic performance of fiber reinforced alkali-activated concrete

25. Behavior of geopolymer concrete under cyclic loading
26. Fracture parameters of steel fiber-reinforced geopolymer concrete
27. Behaviour of geopolymer concrete short column under axial loading
28. Dynamic mechanical properties of fly ash/slag-based geopolymeric recycled aggregate concrete

29. Behaviour of GGBS-dolomite geopolymer concrete beam-column joints under monotonic loading

    Part 7 LCA of alkali-activated concrete

30. LCA of fly ash and silica fume based geopolymer concrete
31. LCA of self-compacting concrete containing fly ash as GBFS replacement
32. LCA of 3D printing geopolymer concrete