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    @JournalArticle {1969,
    	title = {Compressive Strength and Microstructure of Hybrid Alkaline Cements},
    	journal = {International Journal of Civil, Architectural Science and Engineering},
    	volume = {8},
    	year = {2014},
    	month = {2014-02-01 00:00:00},
    	pages = {221-227},
    	abstract = {

    Publications on the field of alkali-activated binders,
    state that this new material is likely to have high potential to become
    an alternative to Portland cement. Classical alkali-activated cements
    could be made more eco-efficient if the use of sodium silicate is
    avoided. Besides, most alkali-activated cements suffer from severe
    efflorescence originated by the fact that alkaline and/or soluble
    silicates that are added during processing cannot be totally consumed.
    This paper presents experimental results on hybrid alkaline cements.
    Compressive strength results and efflorescence{\textquoteright}s observations show
    that the new mixes already analyzed are promising. SEM results
    show that no traditional porous ITZ was detected in these binders.

    }, keywords = {Compressive strength, Efflorescence, hybrid alkaline cements, ITZ., SEM}, author = {Abdollahnejad, Z. and Pacheco-Torgal, F. and Aguiar, J. B.} }

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    The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.

    Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more


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