Neutron Scattering, Agricultural Wastes, Concrete & Water mobility: What can we learn from this combination?

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In recent years, the research related to agricultural wastes aiming to evaluate their potential for recycling as well as the elimination of the landfills increased dramatically. The current project focus on the use of quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) experiments on the role of water in mature concrete produced using different Brazilian sugar cane bagasse ashes from the co-generation industry. These ashes are recognized as having pozzolanic properties, and can therefore be used as alternative supplementary cementitious materials for concrete production. The durability of concrete is related to its ability to limit fluid transmission and knowledge of how to reduce the water mobility is critical to improving durability. QENS is a unique technique for such investigation as it probes both dynamic and geometric aspects of the protons motions in very short time scale.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088315
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088315
Provenance
Creator Dr Mark Telling; Professor Heloisa Nunes Bordallo; Mr Johan Jacobsen; Dr Thomas Rod; Dr Christian Jacobsen; Dr Laurie Aldridge; Dr Fabiano Yokaichiya; Ms Michelle Santos Rodrigues
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-11-29T10:24:15Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-09T10:10:27Z