Abstract: More than 60  billion kg (60  million t) of industrial by-products such as fly ash, garbage melting furnace slag, and steel slag are generated every year in Japan. Almost all of them seem to have been effectively used in ...

Abstract: An investigation is made of the inclination factors for estimating the ultimate bearing capacity of shallow strip footings under central load inclined in the direction of footing length. The corresponding theoretical ...

Abstract: Geopolymers are composite hard materials made by mixing solid binders such as fly ash and slag, and alkaline liquid activators such as NaOH and sodium silicate. Geopolymers have recently been developed to be used as a ...