... or biological (Talaiekhozani et al., 2014). This paper focuses on biological self-healing capacity, where a bio-agent is used as its precipitate heals cracks, with the potential to reduce maintenance and extend the service life of the earth bio-fibre composite. As a method of ‘active’ crack repair...

... 25 03 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 concrete technology & manufacture recycling & reuse of materials service life Economic and environmental factors have led the cement industry to make a transition to the use of Portland–limestone cements (PLCs...

... Publishing: All rights reserved 2017 composite structures service life strength & testing of materials The long-term performance of fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) structures must be assessed if FRP is to win acceptance as a mainstream material for use in the construction industry (Busel...

... (furfuryl alcohol : water  =  30 : 100, acidic catalysts and process additives). The impregnated woods were then cured at 100°C (Gobakken and Westin, 2008). ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2015 field testing & monitoring service life timber structures Wood materials are often...

... on the identification of potentially reactive aggregates based on petrographic methods. Examples from a large number of samples analysed in the scope of a research project are presented. concrete technology & manufacture geology service life Since the nineteenth century, concrete has been one...

...Barun Shankar Gupta, MS, MSc; Bjørn Petter Jelle, PhD; Per Jostein Hovde, PhD; Tao Gao, PhD Monitoring, assessment and prediction of service life of materials are a serious challenge for the building and construction sector. According to ISO 15686 (2008), laboratory testing must be performed...

... of corrosion is required. The International Federation of Concrete (FIB) probabilistic approach has been recently proposed in the literature for a service-life-oriented design of reinforced concrete structures. However, it needs to be validated on the long term. In order to understand its reliability, the FIB...

...Ivan Cole, PhD; Penny Corrigan, PhD The prediction of the service life of buildings and engineered structures is complex. Such predictions are usually carried out on a component-by-component basis, but must incorporate variations in component design, material type, usage and environment. Extensive...

... of FTIR and thereby see how this may be applied to evaluate the service life of wood. Four types of wooden materials were studied; three untreated and one treated with chromated copper arsenate. Surface concentrated cellulose and lignin are the primary wood components used to determine the quality...

..., the temperature or moisture content, shows any consistent trend with curing period. concrete structures field testing & monitoring service life Three types of sensors were prepared for embedding in the concrete to measure: strain (S), temperature (T) and moisture content. To measure...