Geopolymer Institute

Geopolymer Composite Applications, Fireproof panels, Fireproof Decoration

The patented GEOPOLY-THERM technology is based on the use of geopolymer binders. The effects of fires aboard vessels have been demonstrated as a result of collision between ships and ferries during peace time, and by experiences of the British Navy in the Falkland Islands and the [...]

Geopolymeric binders, used either with rock aggregates to produce rock-concretes or with carbon fibers to produce non-flammable composites, have a variety of important industrial uses.
The same geosynthesis that produces geopolymeric rock-cements is used industrially for making binders for advanced composite materials and ceramics. Updated research is presented in Davidovits’ book, Geopolymer Chemistry & Applications, [...]

J. Thermal Analysis (1991)
GEOPOLYMERS: Inorganic Polymeric New Materials
by Joseph Davidovits
published in : Journal of Thermal Analysis, Vol. 37, 1633-1656 (1991)
Spectacular technological progress has been made in the last few years through the development of new materials such as ‘geopolymers’, and new techniques, such as ‘sol-gel’. New state-of-the-art materials designed with the help of geopolymerisation reactions [...]

1rst International Conference on Composites in Infrastructure
Tuscon, Arizona, Jan. 1996
Fire response of geopolymer structural composites
by
Richard E. Lyon, Usman Sorathia, P.N. Balaguru , Andrew Foden,
Joseph Davidovits and Michel Davidovics
published in the Proceedings of ICCI’96, pp. 972-981; see also the paper on pages166-177
The fire response of a potassium aluminosilicate matrix (GEOPOLYMER) carbon fiber composite was measured and [...]

Geopolymer-Carbon Composite for Repair and Rehabilitation
of Reinforced Concrete Beams
by
P. Balaguru, Stephen Kurtz, and Jon Rudolph,
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ -08855-0909, U.S.A.
This report presents the results of an experimental investigation of the behavior of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with carbon fiber fabrics and geopolymer. The primary objective of the investigation was to [...]

Richard E. Lyon, P.N. Balaguru, Andrew Foden, Usman Sorathia,
Michel Davidovics and Joseph Davidovits.
published in the journal “Fire and Materials”, USA, 1996
This paper presents the latest results on the properties of GEOPOLYMER/CARBON composite, namely: * viscosity,

chemical reactivity,
differential scanning calorimetry,
thermogravimetric analyses,
mechanical properties (inplane shear, interlaminar shear, warp tensile, flexure).

It further compares GEOPOLYMER/CARBON composite to organic matrix composites [...]

The Geopolymer Group at Rutgers University, USA, lead by Prof. Balaguru and the collaboration of Dr. R. Lyon from F.A.A has published a new paper in the SAMPE Journal, issue September/October 2004. The title is:
Fire Protection of Flammable Materials Utilizing Geopolymer, James Giancaspro and P. Balaguru, Rutgers University and Richard Lyon, FAA Technical Center.
Link to [...]

Minerals Engineering 16 (2003), pp. 205–210
Fire-resistant geopolymer produced by granulated blast furnace slag
T.W.Cheng * , J.P.Chiu
Department of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering,National Taipei University of Technology,Taipei 106,Taiwan,ROC
E-mail : twcheng (a) ntut.edu.tw (T.W.Cheng).
This paper describes research into the use of granulated blast furnace slag as an active filler in the making of geopolymers. During this work [...]