Geopolymer Institute

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 aggregates industries, results from the [...]

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 and non-combustible plastic materials became [...]

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 [...]

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)
Faculty of Engineering, Curtin University [...]

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 B.Vijaya Rangan
Invited Paper, Concrete [...]

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

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 recommends the [...]