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Structural and Physico-mechanical Investigations of New Acidic Geopolymers Based on Natural Moroccan Pozzolan: A Parametric Study
Acidic geopolymers based on metakaolin are very promising materials but the cost and pre-treatment of kaolinic clays minimize their economic and...
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Mechanical Behavior's Enhancement of Sandy Soil by a Natural Pozzolan-Based Geopolymer and Nanomaterial
Improvement of weak and problematic soils is always essential for geotechnical engineers. One of the most common soil improvement methods is soil...
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Durability and Mechanical Aspects of UHPC Incorporating Fly Ash and Natural Pozzolan
Silica fume (SF), an ultra-fine pozzolanic material that is a by-product of industrial processes, is essentially used as mineral filler in the...
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Effect of Curing Temperature on Properties of Compressed Lateritic Earth Bricks Stabilized with Natural Pozzolan-Based Geopolymer Binders Synthesized in Acidic and Alkaline Media
The present work aims to evaluate the curing temperatures on the engineering and structural properties of the compressed earth blocks (CEBs) produced...
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Effects of Recycled Asphalt Material and Natural Pozzolan as Additives of Hot-Mix Asphalt: A Field Study
Using existing resources more efficiently and effectively becomes important currently. The question of how to make the best use of resources arises...
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Resistance of Lime-Natural Pozzolan Mortars in Salt-Laden Environments
Salt crystallization belongs to the main decay processes in historic masonry mortars in which lime-pozzolan binders were often used. In this paper,...
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Engineered and green natural pozzolan-nano silica-based alkali-activated concrete: shrinkage characteristics and life cycle assessment
Alkali-activated concrete (AAC) or binders (AABs) have emerged as a substitute to conventional ordinary Portland cement (OPC)–based concrete owing to...
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Effect of Curing Conditions on the Mechanical Properties of Geopolymer Binder Based Natural Moroccan Pozzolan
Cement is rapidly becoming among the extensively utilized materials. However, its production contributes to approximately 6–8% of the world’s CO2...
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Removal of cadmium from phosphate industrial wastewater using pozzolan: characterization, experimental and Monte Carlo/SAA simulations studies
The removal of cadmium for the treatment of contaminated wastewater was investigated using a natural local pozzolan clay excavated from the Laayoune...
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Experimental Investigation and Classification of Wastewater Treatment Sludge as Pozzolan for Cement
This paper presents an investigation conducted to evaluate wastewater treatment sludge for potential use as a cement extender or pozzolan. Two...
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Substituting Natural Pozzolan with Artificial Derived from Industrial Perlite Waste for Mortar Production
Pozzolans were used selectively in combination with lime to produce mortars used in structures where watertightness was required such as aqueducts,...
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Optimizing the Flexural Strength of Cement Mortar Incorporating Natural Pozzolan Using Taguchi Method
Partially replacing cement with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) has been extensively studied in the past. Despite the ability of SCMs to...
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Steel slag and zeolite as sustainable pozzolans for UHPC: an experimental study of binary and ternary pozzolan mixtures under various curing conditions
The production and storage of steel slag, a by-product of the steel industry, pose environmental challenges in various nations. This study...
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Building MLR, ANN and FL models to predict the strength of problematic clayey soil stabilized with a combination of nano lime and nano pozzolan of natural sources for pavement construction
The current study aims at predicting the strength of the problematic clayey soils treated with combinations of pozzolan of natural sources and lime...
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Producing of Lightweight Concrete from Two Varieties of Natural Pozzolan from the Middle Atlas (Morocco): Economic, Ecological, and Social Implications
The main objective of this work is to evaluate the combined effect of two natural pozzolan varieties (black and red) with different grain sizes (fine...
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Reduction of CO2 environmental pollution from concrete, by adding local mineral pozzolan as a part of cement replacement in concrete: a case study on engineering properties
Cement industries are one of the biggest sources of CO 2 emissions. Considering the high consumption of cement in the construction industry, replacing...
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Natural pozzolan super-absorbent polymer: synthesis, characterization, and its application on plant growing under drought condition
In this work, a novel natural pozzolan-incorporated super-absorbent polymer composites (SAPCs), a potential soil-additive to increase water holding...
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Evaluation of self-compacting concrete containing pozzolan (zeolite, metakaolin & silica fume) and polypropylene fiber against sulfate attacks with different PH: an experimental study
Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is considered one of the most popular types of concrete in the construction industry. In recent decades, investigating...
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Laboratory Characterization of Pozzolan-Modified Asphalt Binder
The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of using Pozzolan as an asphalt binder modifier and assess its potential physical and...
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Effect of Natural Pozzolanic Additive on Strength and Durability of Concrete Immersed in Seawater
This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of natural pozzolanic additives on the strength and durability of concrete immersed in...
