Handbook of advances in Alkali-activated Concrete

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects. Professor Prinya Chindaprasirt is the Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Research and Development Center (SIRDC), a research unit in Khon Kaen University. He is now also the head of Advanced Functional Materials research cluster of Khon Kaen University. He was appointed a full professor in 2007. In 2009 he was the first person in civil engineering who was appointed the highest rank professor in Thailand. He has set up the Thai Geopolymer Network in 2005 to promote the research and collaboration among Thai researchers in this field. Togay Ozbakkaloglu is a Professor at the Ingram School of Engineering of Texas State University, USA. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed research papers in these areas, including over 125 journal articles that appeared in leading disciplinary journals and received over 4000 citations (Scopus). He is Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (the foremost structural engineering journal), Heliyon, Frontiers in Built Environment, and Australian Journal of Civil Engineering. He also serves on the Editorial Board of 12 international journals, including the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, the leading journal in his immediate research field of structural applications of FRP composites.

• Part I: Design, Rehology and Curing of Alkali-Activated Concrete1. A Mix Design Procedure for Alkali-Activated Concrete Based on the Concept of Reactive Modulus2. Mix design of fly ash-based alkali activated concrete3. Alkali activated dry-mix concretes4. Optimization of production parameters of alkali-activated concrete5. Influence of precursors on rheology of alkali-activated concrete 6. Alkali-activated concrete via oven and microwave radiation curing7. Oven-cured alkali-activated concretesPart II: Properties of Alkali-Activated Concrete8. Non-Conventional alkaline activating solutions for alkali-activated mortars and concretes9. Ambient-cured alkali-activated concrete with single alkali activator10. alkali-activated concrete versus opc concrete and roman concrete when using sea sand and sea water11. One part alkali-activated concrete with seawater12. Properties of lightweight fiber reinforced alkali-activated concrete13. Properties of Alkali-activated Lightweight Concrete14. Structural performance of waste based reinforced alkali-activated concretePart III: Durability and LCA of Alkali-Activated Concrete16. Alkali-aggregate reaction in alkali-activated cement concretes17. Chloride penetration in alkali-activated concrete18. Resistance of alkali-activated concrete to seawater19. Acid Resistance of alkali-activated concrete20. Fire resistance of recycled aggregate alkali-activated concrete21. LCA of lightweight alkali-activated concrete22. LCA of fiber-reinforced alkali activated concrete