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Corrigendum to “Assessment of test methods for characterizing the hydrophobic nature of surface-treated High Performance Concrete” [Constr. Build. Mater. 110 (2016) 145–153]
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.02.183 2018-03-13
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Influence of the surface roughness of crushed natural aggregates on the microhardness of the interfacial transition zone of concrete with mineral admixtures and polymer latex
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.02.205 2018-03-12 Aggregate surface roughness has a significant effect on the interfacial transition zone of concrete. For this study, concrete specimens were prepared from five crushed natural coarse aggregates with varying surface roughnesses obtained from five different sou... |
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Identification of similar seismic events using a phase-only correlation technique
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.03.053 2018-03-12 Identification and clustering of similar acoustic emission (AE) events are important to determine source locations precisely and to evaluate subsurface cracks. An AE cluster analysis method using phase-only correlation (POC) is proposed to identify and hierar... |
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Deterioration mechanism of CA mortar due to simulated acid rain ☆
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.03.033 2018-03-07 In acid rain regions of Southwest China, cement-emulsified asphalt mortar (CA mortar), a key structure component in China Railway Track System (CRTS), is reported with more serious damaged signs than other locations. To investigate the effects of acid rain on... |
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Comparison of the retarding mechanisms of sodium gluconate and amino trimethylene phosphonic acid on cement hydration and the influence on cement performance
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.03.022 2018-03-07 ATMP and SG were effective hydration retarders of cement. The goal of this study was to provide the comparison of the influence of ATMP and SG on the performance and hydration of Portland cement. The setting time at 20 °C and 35 °C, compressive strength and f... |
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Effect of calcined Czech claystone on the properties of high performance concrete: Microstructure, strength and durability
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.02.204 2018-03-03 Most supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) have been only rarely used in high performance concrete (HPC) design to date, silica fume being one of the very few exceptions in that respect. The content of many SCMs in blended cements was also often low beca... |
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Measurement of radioactivity in building materials – Problems encountered caused by possible disequilibrium in natural decay series
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.02.044 2018-03-02 The determination of the activity concentration of naturally occurring radionuclides in construction materials is based on the principles of gamma-spectrometry. Gamma spectrometry is a comparative method and therefore includes many parameters that are specifi... |
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Zeolitized bottom ashes from biomass combustion as cement replacing components
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.02.057 2018-02-21 In power plants biomass combustion produces large quantities of biomass bottom ash wastes. During the combustion process, the produced ashes are enriched in the radionuclides. The different enrichment of the various radionuclides within a radioactive series, ... |
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Using RESRAD-BUILD to assess the external dose from the natural radioactivity of building materials
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.02.015 2018-02-17 RESRAD-BUILD is a code developed by Argonne US National Laboratory for assessing the radiological doses resulting from the occupancy of buildings contaminated with radioactive material. This freely downloadable software allows to consider multiple sources of ... |
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Identifying CFRP strip width influence on fracture of RC beams by acoustic emission
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.01.189 2018-02-13 Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) is a widely used material to strengthen deficient structures externally. While CFRP has numerous advantages, debonding is the main problem of CFRP-strengthened reinforced concrete (RC) beams as it causes sudden failure. ... |