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Suitability of Excavated London Clay from Tunnelling Operations as a Supplementary Cementitious Material and Expanded Clay Aggregate

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva

London Clay is a marine geological formation that is relatively abundant in the London Basin area in the United Kingdom. It primarily originates from reworked Jurassic shale, greensand and chalk and lateritic Eocene soils with a mineralogy consisting of ka ...

2025

Effect of ZnO on the reactivity of cementitious systems

Andrea Eloisa Teixeira Pita

One of the biggest driving forces in cement research today is the mitigation of the CO2 emissions caused by its production. A potential solution to reduce the environmental impact is to replace cement with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). This ...

EPFL2022

Effect of a liquid-type temperature rise inhibitor on cement hydration

Karen Scrivener

A liquid-type temperature rise inhibitor (L-TRI) based on modified sorbitol was developed to solve the thermal cracking issue by modulating the heat release from cement hydration during the early age. Both the exothermic process and phase evolution of ceme ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Capillary flow in UHPFRC with synthetic fibers, under high tensile stresses

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili

A novel Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) mix with synthetic fibers and a low clinker matrix, henceforth referred to as PE-UHPFRC, has been developed for structural applications. It exhibits a high tensile elastic limit above 7 MPa, ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Understanding the carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials: a critical review by RILEM TC 281-CCC (vol 53, 136, 2020)

Karen Scrivener

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-020-01558-w ...

SPRINGER2021

Effect of a novel starch-based temperature rise inhibitor on cement hydration and microstructure development

Karen Scrivener, Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia, Yu Yan

This study investigates the mechanism by which a novel starch-based admixture named Temperature Rise Inhibitor (TRI) modifying cement hydration and limiting heat evolution. This admixture is designed to avoid thermal cracking of concrete. Depending on the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

The reaction between metakaolin and limestone and its effect in porosity refinement and mechanical properties

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva

n limestone calcined clay cements (LC3), more hemicarboaluminate and monocarboaluminate is observed, as compared to other blended cements, from the reaction of metakaolin with limestone. In this study, it is shown that the formation of these carboaluminate ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

The effect of sodium hydroxide on Al uptake by calcium silicate hydrates (C S H)

Christian Ludwig, Sonya Barzgar

To reduce the CO2 emissions from cement production, Portland cement (PC) is partially replaced by supplementary cementitious materials (SCM). Reactions of SCM with PC during hydration leads to the formation of CSH with more silicon and aluminum than in PC, ...

2020

Hydration reactions and stages of clinker composed mainly of stoichiometric ye'elimite

Karen Scrivener, Mohsen Ben Haha, Emmanuelle Anne Boehm Courjault, Frank Bullerjahn

Ye'climitc (Ca4Al6O12SO4 or C(4)A(3)(S) over bar) is the main hydraulic mineral present in calcium sulfoaluminate cement (CSA). The hydration of ye'elimite is responsible for the early age cement properties. We identify 5 stages in the hydration of neat st ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Rapid, Robust, and Relevant (R3) Reactivity Test for Supplementary Cementitious Materials

Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Xuerun Li, Ruben Anton Snellings

Although supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) are now commonly accepted and widely used, consensus has not been reached for methods to test their chemical reactivity. A multitude of test methods exist but often fall short on one or more of the key f ...

AMER CONCRETE INST2019

Low Carbon Cement LC3 in Cuba: Ways to Achieve a Sustainable Growth of Cement Production in Emerging Economies

Karen Scrivener

Through a collaborative work established between CIDEM and the Laboratory of Construction Materials at EPFL, a new cementitious system based on a synergetic combination of calcined clay and limestone as Portland's clinker replacement was developed. The nov ...

SPRINGER2018

Influence Grinding Procedure, Limestone Content and PSD of Components on Properties of Clinker-Calcined Clay-Limestone Cements Produced by Intergrinding

Karen Scrivener, Albert Perez, Aurélie Rosine Favier

This paper looks at the study of intergrinding for the production of ternary cement based on clinker, calcined clay, limestone and gypsum with 50% of clinker substitution (LC3). The impact of grinding time on clinker, limestone and calcined clay PSD, and h ...

Springer2018

Characterisation and hydration of ye'elimite containing cements

Frank Bullerjahn

Calcium sulphoaluminate cements (CSA) with the main phase yeâ elimite are a promising class of non-Portland cements which are gaining increasing interest from the cement industry. However, the hydration kinetics of CSA cements varies strongly, even for ce ...

EPFL2018

Efficiency Factors for Plastic Design in Concrete: Influence of Brittleness in Compression, High Tech Concrete: Where Technology and Engineering Meet

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

A large number of design approaches for structural concrete rely on the applicability of limit analysis. This is for instance the case of bending and shear design in members with transverse reinforcement, where it is assumed that plastic compression fields ...

2017

Pozzolanic reactivity of low grade kaolinitic clays: Influence of calcination temperature and impact of calcination products on OPC hydration

Karen Scrivener

The influence of thermal activation temperature in the pozzolanic reactivity of low grade kaolinitic clay and the impact of calcination products in OPC hydration are assessed in this paper. The raw material, with approximately 40% kaolinite and 40% of 2:1 ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

The existence of amorphous phase in Portland cements: Physical factors affecting Rietveld quantitative phase analysis

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings, Amélie Bazzoni

Rietveld quantitative phase analysis has become a widespread tool for the characterization of Portland cement, both for research and production control purposes. One of the major remaining points of debate is whether Portland cements contain amorphous cont ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Hydration of cementitious materials, present and future

Karen Scrivener

This paper is a keynote presentation from the 13th International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement. It discusses the underlying principles of hydration and recent evidence for the mechanisms governing this process in both Portland cements and other cemen ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011

Evaluation of UHPFRC activation energy using empirical models

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Aicha Kamen, Hamid Sadouki

The influence of thermal curing on the evolution of the material properties and the UHPFRC behaviour was investigated. Tests results showed a beneficial effect of a high temperature curing on the early age material properties due to the thermo-activation e ...

Springer Netherlands2009

Innovation in use and research on cementitious material

Karen Scrivener

In this paper we discuss innovations in concrete technology which are currently being applied in the field-namely high and ultra high performance (strength), and self consolidating concrete. We discuss the factors which have enabled these developments and ...

2008

Hydration of tricalcium aluminate and gypsum alone and in the presence of alite

Karen Scrivener, Alexandra Quennoz

2008