Everyone likes to renovate their homes once in a while. This is primarily because of rusty walls or water leakages from roofs and floor cracks. Technology is developing day by day, and the construction industry has been doing an excellent ...
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Smart Nano-Reinforced Cement Developed for Higher Durability and Strength
Engineers dealing with the issue of smart materials typically enhance the function of materials by increasing their carbon content, but this reduces their mechanical performance. The researchers at Northwestern University have developed durable, smarter, and highly functional cement by incorporating ...
Light-Emitting Cement: A Sustainable Way to Light up Highways
Light-emitting cement is a green construction material designed to illuminate highways, roads, and bicycle lanes without using electricity. Light-emitting cement absorbs solar energy during the day and radiates light at night. This innovative cement was developed by Dr. Jose Carlos ...
6 Special Cements for Concrete and Masonry Construction
Special cements are used to serve some specific functions in concrete and masonry construction. These functions can be altering the setting or hardening behavior of concrete, produce different architectural effects, enhance workability, impart water retention and plasticity of masonry, resist ...
What are the Products of Cement Hydration? [PDF]
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The chemical reaction which takes place between cement and water is known as hydration of cement. This reaction is exothermic in nature, which means heat is released during the reaction, and the evolved heat is called as heat of hydration. ...
How to Develop High-Early-Strength Concrete? [PDF]
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High-early-strength concrete can be developed using ordinary concrete constituents, special admixtures, and certain concreting practices. The high-early-strength concrete, which is also called fast track concrete, gains its specified strength at an early age compared to ordinary concrete. The time during ...
Applications of Rice Husk Ash in Building Constructions
Rice husk ash (RHA) plays two roles in concrete constructions. The first role is using rice husk as a substitute for Portland cement which leads to the reduction of the cost of concrete, and the other role is as an ...
Green Cement: Definition, Types, Advantages, and Applications
Green cement is an environmentally friendly product that minimizes carbon footprint of cement production. Many attempts have been made to produce green cements and several green cement types have been produced. The majority of these are based on technological advances ...