Calcined Clays for Sustainable Concrete

Shashank Bishnoi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Delhi. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Kanpur, a Master’s degree from the University of Tokyo, and a PhD from Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has served as a post-doctoral fellow at Laval University, Canada and at EPFL, Switzerland. His areas of research interest include experimental and numerical studies into hydration of cement and supplementary cementitious materials, sustainability, resource utilization, durability, repair and life-cycle costs of concrete structures.

• Potential of selected South African kaolinite clays for clinker replacement in concrete.- Potential of selected South African kaolinite clays for clinker replacement in concrete.- Feasibility study for calcined clay use in the Southeast United States.- Comparison of brick clays and a kaolinitic clay regarding calcination and performance in blended cement mortars.- Evaluation of ceramic waste from Goa as  SCM.- Qualifying of low grade clay for geopolymer mortar: a preliminary assessment.- Alkaline activation of blended cements with calcined illitic clay using glass powder wastes.- Activated calcined clays as cement main constituent.- Calcined clay: process impact on the reactivity and color.- Life Cycle Assessment of LC3: Parameters and Prognoses.- Influence of calcium sulphate on hydration of cements containing calcined clay.- Influence of calcium sulphate on hydration of cements containing calcined clay.- Evaluation of age strengths of metakaolin blend pastes with varyingfineness of grind.- The effect of calcite and gibbsite impurities in calcined clay on its reactivity.- Basic creep of LC3 paste: links between properties and microstructure.- Calcined clay - limestone cements: hydration and mechanical properties of ternary blends.- Limestone calcined clay cement: opportunities and challenges.- Reactivity of clay minerals in intervention mortars.- Alternative masonry binders and units using LP cement-soil-brick powder blend and low-molar alkaline solution.