The growing production of concrete is prompting concerns about the sustainability of the
construction sector. Therefore, the mitigation of the environmental footprints of concrete as a …

Self-compacting concrete or self-consolidated concrete is a highly flowable, non-
segregating concrete which spreads into congested reinforcement area and fills the …

The present study investigates the working principle upon the accelerating-retarding effect of
triethanolamine dosage on the initial setting time of hydrated cement. We have conducted …

Concrete is the most utilized material all over the world. However, a vital drawback of
concrete is its weak tensile properties. Thus, since 1920, many researches were focused on …

Obtaining insights into the adsorption and assembly of polyelectrolytes on chemically
variable calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) surfaces at the atomic scale has been a …

Cement production is an energy-intensive manufacturing process with potentially large
environmental burdens. Among the others, it is one of the largest industrial sources of CO 2 …

Inhibiting natural gas hydrate (NGH) decomposition is a crucial challenge in NGH strata
cementation. Lecithin can inhibit the decomposition of NGH, however, before lecithin is …

This paper aims at investigating clean hydrogen production from the large size (14 GW)
hydroelectric power plant of Itaipu, located on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, the …

Considering works published in the literature for more than a decade (period from January
2008 till June 2019), this paper provides an overview of recent applications of the so-called …

It is a common practice to blend various kinds of chemical admixtures during concrete
fabrication in order to achieve desired properties of concretes. Nevertheless, there were …