Biochar aging may affect the interactions of biochar with water and thus its performance as soil amendment; yet the specific mechanisms underlying these effects are poorly understood. By means of FTIR, N2 adsorption, Hg intrusion porosimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, 13C solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and 1H NMR relaxometry, we inv...
Concrete from deconstruction can have a second life in the form of recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs). They unfortunately have poor properties (high porosity and water absorption coefficient (WAC)) with respect to natural aggregates. Accelerated carbonation was implemented to improve the RCA properties and to increase their use by storing carbon d...
Concrete from deconstruction can have a second life in the form of recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs). They unfortunately have poor properties (high porosity and water absorption coefficient (WAC)) with respect to natural aggregates. Accelerated carbonation was implemented to improve the RCA properties and to increase their use by storing carbon d...
This study assessed the performance of self-compacting rubberized concrete against carbonation and chloride penetration. In addition to fresh-state and compressive strength tests, durability of the studied mixes was evaluated by measuring carbonation and chloride penetration depths, total porosity, and pores'size distribution. It was found that an ...
This study assessed the performance of self-compacting rubberized concrete against carbonation and chloride penetration. In addition to fresh-state and compressive strength tests, durability of the studied mixes was evaluated by measuring carbonation and chloride penetration depths, total porosity, and pores'size distribution. It was found that an ...
Soil hydraulic conductivity depends not only on the state variables such as void ratio and pore size distribution, but also on its physical/geotechnical properties. In this study, Atterberg limits, hydraulic conductivity and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) tests were performed on MX80 bentonite/Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) claystone mixtures. Based ...
Gibbs-Duhem equation is a fundamental relation of the thermodynamics of fluids that originates from the extensive behavior of fluids. Fluids adsorption in micro-porous media can break the extensivity with respect to volume, so that Gibbs-Duhem equation does not hold in general for adsorbed fluid. As a consequence, a total of 6 moduli are needed to ...
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Previous literature indicates a decrease in the mechanical properties of various concrete types that contain recycled aggregates (RA), due to their porosity and to their interface of transition zone (ITZ). However, other components of the RA concrete microstructure have not yet been explored, such as the modification of the new paste (NP) with resp...
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An innovative experimental method, based on the thermal stability of ettringite, is proposed and implemented to dissolve the crystalline products formed during Delayed Ettringite Formation (DEF). The tests are designed to empty all the pores that are filled by ettringite during their formation. By characterising the porous structure before and afte...
