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    @conference {2838,
    	title = {Physical and mechanical properties of cement mortars with direct incorporation of phase change material},
    	journal = { International Congress on Polymers in Concrete (ICPIC 2018)},
    	year = {2018},
    	month = {2018-04-29 00:00:00},
    	pages = {203-209},
    	abstract = {

    The rapid world economic growth has led to an increase in the energy consumption.
    So, the energy efficiency of buildings is very important because this is one of
    the leading sectors in energy consumption, in developed countries. The phase
    change materials (PCM) have the ability to reduce the temperature variation, due
    to their capability of absorbing and releasing energy to the environment. The PCM
    can be incorporated into building materials using different methods, such as encapsulation,
    shape-stabilization, direct incorporation and immersion. The most
    common form of this material utilization is through encapsulation. It should be
    noted that, currently, there are still high production costs involved with PCM encapsulation.
    Thus, it is imperative to develop mortars with PCM incorporation
    based on inexpensive raw materials (PCM direct incorporation), to address the
    high production costs of macro or microencapsulated PCM. The main objective of
    this work was the study of the physical and mechanical properties of cement mortars
    with direct incorporation of PCM, with a melting temperature of about 22 {\textordmasculine}C.
    Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that the addition of this material
    caused some changes in the fresh and hardened properties of cement mortars.

    }, keywords = {Mortars, PCM}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-78175-4_24}, author = {Cunha, S. and Aguiar, J. B. and Ferreira, V. M. and Tadeu, A.} }

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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.

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