Geopolymer Institute

30 Years of Successes and Failures
in Geopolymer Applications.
Market Trends and Potential Breakthroughs.
by Joseph Davidovits
Invited Paper, Geopolymer 2002 International Conference, October 28-29, Melbourne, Australia
The presentation included 30 slides describing following geopolymer applications developed since 1972 in France, Europe and USA. The Geopolymer chemistry concept was invented in 1979 with the creation of a non-for profit scientific [...]

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 [...]

Updated list of publications from the Geopolymer Research Group, Wellington, New Zealand, MacKenzie et al. (1999-2007). See the list New Zealand Geopolymer Group
Use of Inorganic Polymer to Improve the Fire Response of Balsa Sandwich Structures, James Giancaspro, P. N. Balaguru, and Richard E. Lyon, J. Mat. in Civ. Engrg., Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 390-397 [...]

Geopolymer session at the SAMPE’05 Int. Conference, Long Beach, California scheduled for Monday May 2, 2005.
Find the list of the 7 papers dedicated to high-tech applications
of the geopolymer technology, at:
http://www.sampe.org/SAMPE%2005%20Pre%20Program.pdf

Geopolymer session at the 106th American Ceramic Society National Meeting, Baltimore, USA., April 10-13, 2005.
Prof. W. Kriven from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain is organizing this session within the Ceramic Matrix Composite Symposium.
For list of the 10 papers and abstracts go to
http://ocms.acers.org/abstract.asp?confid=31&sympid=398&sessid=2679

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 [...]

The link to the web site for research results and publications of the geopolymer group at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, USA, lead by Prof. W. Kriven, is the following:
http://kriven.mse.uiuc.edu/research/research.htm
A paper titled
MICROSTRUCTURE AND MICROCHEMISTRY OF FULLY-REACTED GEOPOLYMERS AND GEOPOLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES
Waltraud M. Kriven, Jonathon L. Bell and Matthew Gordon The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department [...]

Geopolymer session at the 106th American Ceramic Society National Meeting, Indianapolis, USA., April 21, 2004.
Prof. W. Kriven from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain is organizing this session within the Ceramic Matrix Composite Symposium.
For list of papers and abstracts go to
http://ocms.acers.org/