Fabio Longo, Alessio Cascardi, Paola Lassandro, Maria Antonietta Aiello
AbstractAll over the world, a large part of existing buildings is not adequate
to satisfy the safety requirement and the thermal comfort criteria. For this
reason, the interest in structural and energy retrofitting systems has steadily
grown in the last decades. In this scenario, an innovative thermal resistant
geopolymer mortar has been developed and used for Inorganic Matrix Composite
(IMC) syst... hiện toàn bộ
Carlos Valbson dos Santos Araújo, Ricardo José Carvalho Silva
The technology of the Construction Industry is advancing constantly. Every year,
new materials, equipment, and building techniques are introduced. In the
specific case of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures, the
innovations have contributed to the improvement of the properties of the
concrete and the durability of the structures that incorporate this material.
These advances are not re... hiện toàn bộ
Carlos Eduardo Tino Balestra, Gustavo Savaris, Raissa Soares do Nascimento, Ronaldo Alves de Medeiros-Junior
The technique of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy is a non-destructive method
used in several applications in Civil Engineering for the qualitative and
quantitative determination of chemical elements in different materials. This
technique allows the analysis of materials by atomic excitations and
identification of spectra obtained from defined wavelengths interpreted for each
chemical element prese... hiện toàn bộ
Alessia Cuccurullo, Domenico Gallipoli, Agostino Walter Bruno, Charles E. Augarde, Paul Hughes, Christian La Borderie
AbstractCivil engineering research is increasingly focusing on the development
of sustainable and energy-efficient building materials. Among these materials,
raw (unfired) earth constitutes a promising option for reducing the
environmental impact of buildings over their entire service life from
construction to demolition. Raw earth has been used since old times but only
recently has acquired promi... hiện toàn bộ