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Fly ash-based lightweight geopolymer mortars for fire protection
No full textThe present study aims to investigate the use of geopolymer mortars as passive fire protection system for steel structures. Coal fly ashes were used as aluminosilicate source and perlite was employed as aggregate to obtain a lightweight system. In addition, a geopolymer mortar containing quartz aggregate was produced for comparison. The geopolymer mortars were applied on stainless steel plates and exposed to both, cellulosic and hydrocarbon standard fire curves, according to ISO 834-1 and EN 1363-2, respectively. Acoustic emission measurements were conducted to analyze cracking phenomena during the high temperature exposure. The resulting temperature-time curves showed that the investigated system is effective in retarding the temperature rise of the steel plates. When the cellulosic fire curve was applied, a 20 mm [0.79 in.] thick layer of lightweight geopolymer mortar protected the steel substrate from reaching the critical temperature of 500 ?C [932 ?F] for at least 30 minutes, avoiding the rapid decrease of its mechanical properties and thus representing an important safety measure against accidental fires. No spalling phenomena on heating were detected; however, significant cracking was observed on cooling
Bewertung und Lebensdauerprognose von Brückenbauwerken – Grundlagenuntersuchungen zur Zustandsüberwachung mittels zerstörungsfreier Prüftechniken
No full textAnhand der aus Biegeversuchen vorliegenden Ergebnisse wird der Einsatz unterschiedlicher Methoden der zerstörungsfreien Materialprüfung gezeigt und deren Anwendbarkeit für die Analyse des Verformungsverhaltens von Stahlbetonbalken diskutiert. Hierzu wurde das Verformungsverhalten eines Stahlbetonbalken (L = 2,75 m) in einem 4-Punkt-Biegeversuch untersucht. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf der Charakterisierung der ausschlaggebenden Versagensmodi durch die einzelnen zerstörungsfreien Prüfverfahren und der Vergleich zu klassischen Messmethoden (z.B. Verformungsmessung mittels induktiver Wegaufnehmer). Die Biegeversuche wurden dazu durch Schallemissionsanalyse (SEA) und optische Verformungsanalyse mittels Bildkorrelation (DIC) begleitet
Efficiency of high performance concrete types incorporating bio-materials like rice husk ashes, cassava starch, lignosulfonate and sisal fibres
No full textA new approach for a performance related assessment of capability and durability for joint sealing systems - new possibilities for construction joints
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Application of innovative testing methods for the quasi non-destructive assessment of the material condition in hydraulic engineering structure
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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