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#5: Global Warming Impact on the Cement and Aggregates Industry
5th International Global Warming Conference San Francisco, 1994 Global Warming Impact on the Cement and Aggregates Industry by Joseph Davidovits published in World Resource Review, Vol.6 (2), pp. 263-278 (1994) CO2 related energy taxes are focusing essentially on fuel consumption, not on actual CO2 emission measured at the chimneys. Ordinary Portland cement, used in the [...]
#3: GEOPOLYMERS Inorganic polymeric new materials
NASTS award 1994 Presentation at the national “Real Advances in Materials” Symposium, Washington DC, Sept. 26,1994 GEOPOLYMERS: Inorganic polymeric new materials by Joseph Davidovits published in Journal of Materials Education, Vol. 16 (2,3), pp. 91-138 (1994) In the aftermath of various catastrophic fires in France between 1970-73, which involved common organic plastic, research on non-flammable [...]
Recent Literature in Geopolymer Science and Technology
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. [...]
Research Report on Fly Ash Based Geopolymer Concrete
The Geopolymer Group at Curtin University of Technology, Australia, Prof. Vijay Rangan, has released his Research Report for free download, available in the Library. It is paper # 17. The title is: DEVELOPMENT AND PROPERTIES OF LOW-CALCIUM FLY ASH-BASED GEOPOLYMER CONCRETE by Djwantoro Hardjito and B.Vijaya Rangan Research Report GC 1 (103 pages) (dec. 2005) [...]
State of the Art paper on Fly Ash Geopolymer Concrete
The Geopolymer Group at Curtin University of Technology, Australia, Prof. Vijay Rangan, has released a new paper for free download, available in the Library. It is paper # 19. The title is: State of the Art: Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete, Construction Material for Sustainable Development by Djwantoro Hardjito, Steenie E. Wallah, Dody M.J. Sumajouw, and [...]
Global Sustainability and Geopolymer
The conference presented by Tricia Caswell, Executive Director, Global Sustainability, RMIT, at the GEOPOLYMER 2002 CONFERENCE may be downloaded at the following address: http://www.global.rmit.edu.au/resources/speechpres.php and the pdf file at: http://www.global.rmit.edu.au/resources/GEOPOLYMERS.pdf (807 KB) Mail address: Global Sustainability@RMIT University GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Australia http://www.global.rmit.edu.au
Batelle Institute recommands Geopolymer Cement for Climate Change
The famous report on Sustainable Cement Industry published by the Batelle Institute, titled Climate Change, is available on the Internet at the following address: www.wbcsdcement.org/pdf/final_report8.pdf This report confirms the studies carried out by Prof. Joseph Davidovits since 1990 on CO2 emissions during Portland Cement manufacture (in the LIBRARY the paper on Global Warming). Batelle’s report [...]
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