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Feng, Lichao (author), Yi, Shengjie (author), Zhao, Shuyuan (author), Zhong, Qiucheng (author), Ren, Feirong (author), Liu, C. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Wang, Wenshou (author), Li, Zhenming (author)Recycling aluminosilicate-based solid wastes is imperative to realize the sustainable development of constructions. By using alkali activation technology, aluminosilicate-based solid wastes, such as furnace slag, fly ash, red mud, and most of the bio-ashes, can be turned into alternative binder materials to Portland cement to reduce the carbon...review 2024
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Wu, B. (author)Supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), like fly ash (FA) and blast furnace slag (BFS), are widely used in concrete to partially replace the cement clinker in the production of blended cement or directly replace part of Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in the concrete. No matter how the SCMs are introduced, they can reduce the cost of...doctoral thesis 2023
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Fokkinga, E.P. (author), Hernandez-Tamames, J.A. (author), Ianus, Andrada (author), Nilsson, Markus (author), Tax, Chantal M.W. (author), Perez-Lopez, Raquel (author), Grussu, Francesco (author)Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) aims to disentangle multiple biological signal sources in each imaging voxel, enabling the computation of innovative maps of tissue microstructure. DW-MRI model development has been dominated by brain applications. More recently, advanced methods with high fidelity to histology are...review 2023
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Asperti, S. (author), Hendrikx, R.W.A. (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author), Kortlever, R. (author)Copper is one of the most promising catalysts for the CO<sub>2</sub> reduction reaction (CO<sub>2</sub>RR) due to its unique capability of producing multicarbon products in appreciable quantities. Most of the CO<sub>2</sub>RR research efforts have been directed towards the development of new electrocatalysts to either increase product...journal article 2022
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Yin, Kangting (author), Jiang, Yaqing (author), Wang, Yu (author), Zhao, Wenhao (author), Pan, Zhenghua (author), Li, Z. (author)One-part alkali-activated slag (AAS) as a binder material has a promising application in the construction industry. The properties of one-part AAS incorporating agricultural wastes have been seldom studied. In this paper, the fresh and hardened properties of one-part AAS with the addition of rice straw powder (RSP) were investigated. The...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Shao, Yingxuan (author), Zhang, Ning (author), Tawfek, Abdullah M. (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Sun, Renjuan (author), Tian, Changjin (author), Šavija, B. (author)Engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) belong to a broad class of fibre-reinforced concrete. They incorporate synthetic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibres, cement, fly ash and fine aggregates, and are designed to have a tensile strain capacity typically beyond 3%. This paper presents an investigation on the carbonation behaviour of engineered...journal article 2022
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Li, Wei (author), Yi, Liming (author), Jiang, Wen (author), Dong, H. (author), Zhang, Yong (author)This paper presents experimental investigations into the effects of ultrafine blast furnace slag on microstructure improvements against chloride penetration in saturated and unsaturated cementitious systems exposed to cyclic drying–wetting conditions. The hydration kinetics of ultrafine slag powders and pore solution chemistry in slag-blended...journal article 2022
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Ren, Jie (author), Sun, Hongfang (author), Li, Qun (author), Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Xiaogang (author), Wang, Yanshuai (author), Li, Linfei (author), Xing, Feng (author)In this research, the effects of natural seawater (SW) on the properties of alkali-activated slag/fly ash (AASF) are studied. AASF prepared with deionized water is set as the reference mixture. The results showed that the use of natural SW resulted in a prolonged setting time and lower heat release, but no obvious impact on the flowability of...journal article 2022
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van der Jagt, Thomas (author)For modelling microstructures of materials the Voronoi diagram is one of the most commonly used models. In this thesis we study a generalization of Voronoi diagrams known as the Laguerre-Voronoi diagram. In particular, we consider the stereological problem of estimating the 3D cell volume distribution of such a diagram from one of its 2D planar...master thesis 2021
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Davenne, Niels (author)Multi-material 3D inkjet printing has great potential for rapid prototyping and manufacturing of functional mesoscale structures when novel inks are combined into a fully integrated AM-process. This process can be faster and cheaper than conventional methods to produce functional structures. Research is conducted on a large range of potentially...master thesis 2021
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Leemann, Andreas (author), Lindgård, Jan (author)ASR products formed in various aggregates of two different concrete mixtures tested both at 38 °C and 60 °C with the concrete prism test have been analysed by scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Additionally, Raman spectra of ASR products have been acquired. The variations in the chemical composition of ASR...conference paper 2021
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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chen, Jiayi (author), Ye, Guang (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)ASR (alkali-silica reaction) is one of the toughest durability problems in engineering. However, the damage induced by ASR is still fairly unpredictable due to the lack of microstructural information of cement-based materials affected by ASR, while the microstructure determines the global performance. In order to fill this gap, a multiscale...conference paper 2021
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Scrivener, Karen (author), Georget, Fabien (author), Wilson, William (author), Sui, Shiyu (author)Cementitious Materials become more diverse. In particular, to reduce the CO2 emissions associate with production, it is necessary to increase the levels of replacement of clinker by other materials. A critical consideration is to know how durable different materials will be. Most forms of degradation involve the ingress of different species into...conference paper 2021
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Gu, Chunping (author), Ji, Yongjie (author), Yang, Yang (author), Liu, Jintao (author), Ni, Tongyuan (author)Sewage sludge ash (SSA) is the combustion residue of the sewage sludge obtained from wastewater treatment plants. In China, SSA normally contains high content of SO3, which may cause detrimental effect on the volume stability of cement-based materials. This study investigated the effect of sulfate-rich SSA (SR-SSA) on the volume deformation and...conference paper 2021
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Li, Z. (author)Alkali-activated materials (AAMs), as eco-friendly alternatives to Ordinary Portland cement (OPC), have attracted increasing attention of researchers in the past decades. Unlike cement, which requires calcination of limestone, AAMs can be made from industrial by-products, or even wastes, with the use of alkali-activator. The production of AAMs...doctoral thesis 2021
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Katuin, N. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)The outstanding properties of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites are affected by the development of its microstructure during processing. This work presents a novel approach to identify microstructural features both along the tape thickness and through the thickness. Voronoi tessellation-based evaluation of the fibre volume content on...journal article 2021
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Fu, J. (author), Richardson, I.M. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author)Oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) Eurofer steel was laser welded using a short pulse duration and a designed pattern to minimise local heat accumulation. With a laser power of 2500 W and a duration of more than 3 ms, a full penetration can be obtained in a 1 mm thick plate. Material loss was observed in the fusion zone due to metal...journal article 2021
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Ozkan, C. (author)Literature reports a great deal of contradictory results concerning the effect of microstructure on the corrosion and passivity behaviour of advanced high strength steels. The difficulty in identifying the controlling cause of corrosion results from the inability of disentangling the coupled effects of individual microstructural features in a...master thesis 2020
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Susanto, A. (author)Stray current has become a main concern for many years due to its effect on (reinforced) concrete structures and underground infrastructures. It has been reported that stray current affects not only steel reinforcement embedded in concrete, but can also induce degradation of the cement-based matrix. Stray current causes an increase of...doctoral thesis 2020
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Zhang, Y. (author), Liu, X. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Jing, R. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Poeran, Natascha (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Organosolv lignin, a natural polymer, has been used in this study as an oxidation inhibitor in bitumen. Particularly, the effect of oxidative aging on the chemical compositional changes and on the rheology of bituminous binders with organosolv lignin and the impact to inhibit oxidation in bitumen were evaluated. Firstly, after analyzing the...journal article 2020