Abstract: Organic acids, such as acetic and lactic acids, are prevalent in agricultural and food effluents. They pose a considerable pollution threat and must be collected and stored safely before treatment and release. They cause ...

Abstract: The effect of colloidal nanosilica on the fresh and rheological parameters, plastic shrinkage, heat of hydration, and compressive strength of cement-based grouts is investigated in this paper. The fresh and rheological ...

Abstract: The strength development of standard and adiabatically cured concretes was determined. The concrete mixtures had 28-day cube strengths of 30 and 50 MPa. For both strength classes, portland cement (PC) was partially ...

Abstract: This paper presents studies on the properties of fresh and hardened semilightweight self-consolidating concrete (SLWSCC) mixtures, produced with two types of manufactured coarse lightweight aggregates (LWA) and normal ...