The cementitious materials under consideration by Caltrans for rigid pavement construction may be classified into four categories: Portland cements and blends, calcium aluminate cements and blends, calcium sulfoaluminate cements, and fly ash-based cements. With the exception of Portland cements, most of the cementitious materials under consideration have not been extensively used for pavement c...

White spot lesions are observed in nearly 50% of patients undergoing orthodontic treatment. Long-lasting antibacterial properties of orthodontic cements can reduce this phenomenon. The aim of this research was to compare antimicrobial activity of three commercial glass ionomer cements with three commercial zinc phosphate cements, over time, against streptococcus mutans and candida albicans. Dir...

One of the ways how to rationalize the experimental work is to put to use the non-destructive testing methods. In case of the strength testing of the various age cement specimens the usage of the ultrasonic pulse method appears to lead to decrease the necessary amount of tested samples. Application of this method requires fixed initial conditions like constant proportion of components, identica...

The Phenolate Cement Zinc oxide-eugenol cements have always been regarded as the blandest in terms of their effect on the dental pulp. For this reason, these materials were commonly used as the control in biocompatibility pulp research studies on cements and restorative materials. Zinc oxide-eugenol cements have traditionally been used as temporary restoratives because of the sedative effect on...

The cement industry faces an increasing demand for new supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) as alternative to slags and ashes, the sources of which are in continuous depletion. This study reports on characteristics synthetic aluminosilicate glasses derived from basalt composition (BGs) SCMs. pozzolanic activity developed well their influence hydration kinetics, microstructure, mechanical...

PURPOSE Provisional cements are commonly used to facilitate retrievability of cement-retained fixed implant restorations. While the functional life spans of these cements are unpredictable, the relative retentiveness of various permanent and provisional cements between dental alloys and titanium abutments is not well documented. The aim of this study was to compare the uniaxial resistance force...

Slag-containing pastes and concretes were analysed by element-specific synchrotron-based techniques to determine the speciation of iron on crushed materials through spatially resolved micro-spectroscopic studies. The investigated cement samples hydrated either in laboratory, or exposed river sea water. Metallic iron, along with minor proportions sulphide magnetite was detected laboratory sample...

Among low cost and widely available raw materials, wastepaper sludge ash is of key interest as potential construction material. These materials come from the paper recycling industry. In present study, (WSA) retrieved UPM Chapelle Darblay Company located in south Rouen, France, were subjected to preliminary physicochemical characterization by X-ray fluorescence, laser granulometry scanning elec...

Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate the radiopacity of two conventional cements (Zinc Cement and Ketac Cem Easymix), one resin-modified glass ionomer cement (RelyX Luting 2) and six resin cements (Multilink, Bistite II DC, RelyX ARC, Fill Magic Dual Cement, Enforce and Panavia F) by digitization of images. Methods. Five disc-shaped specimens (10 × 1.0 mm) were made for each materia...