Unraveling the expansion mechanism in lightweight aggregates: Demonstrating that bloating barely requires gas
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DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.118583
Abstract: Abstract Lightweight aggregate bloating process has been studied by a simple experiment using an archetypal clay to know the actual amount of gas involved in expansion. Considering the relationship between gas loss (LOI) and volumetric… read more here.
Keywords: gas loss; expansion; mechanism lightweight; expansion mechanism ... See more keywords
Revealing Expansion Mechanism of Cement-Stabilized Expansive Soil with Different Interlayer Cations through Molecular Dynamics Simulations
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c03376
Abstract: Expansion of clay minerals in expansive soil, such as montmorillonite (MMT), is critical to a broad class of problems in science and engineering. Cement is one of the most widely used materials in ... read more here.
Keywords: expansive soil; expansion; expansion mechanism; cement ... See more keywords