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Tunable chitosan-alginate capsules for a controlled release of crystallisation inhibitors in mortarsKamat, Ameya (author), Palin, D. (author), Lubelli, B. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)Plasters and renders used in historic monuments are vulnerable to degradation caused by salt weathering. Crystallisation inhibitors (molecules/ions that alter salt crystallisation) mixed into mortars have shown promising results in mitigating salt damage by inhibiting salt crystallisation, promoting salt transport to the evaporating surface, and...conference paper 2023
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Kamat, Ameya (author), Abbas, Yawar (author), Blagojević, Andrija (author), van Casteren, Toine (author), Walraven, Joost (author)Service life of concrete infrastructure is severely compromised because of chloride-induced corrosion and measuring the chloride content is crucial to determine the remaining service life. DuraCrete provides a chloride ingress model based on Fick’s 2nd law. Although the diffusion coefficient is modelled as a time-dependent variable, the...conference paper 2021
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Kamat, Ameya (author), Lubelli, B. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)Sodium chloride (NaCl) is one of the ubiquitous soluble salts in the environment and is responsible for weathering of building materials. The salt weathering is attributed to the stress developed from crystallisation of these salts in pores of the building materials, with supersaturation as the driving force. In the last years, researchers have...conference paper 2021
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Kamat, Ameya (author), Abbas, Yawar (author), Blagojevic, Andrija (author), van Casteren, Toine (author), Walraven, J.C. (author)Service life of concrete infrastructure is severely compromised because of chloride-induced corrosion and measuring the chloride content is crucial to determine the remaining service life. DuraCrete provides a chloride ingress model based on Fick’s 2nd law. Although the diffusion coefficient is modelled as a time-dependent variable, the...conference paper 2021