The sugarcane industry generates huge amounts of sugarcane bagasse ashes (SCBA). This work investigates the incorporation of a SCBA waste as an alternative raw material into a clay body, replacing natural clay material by up to 20 wt.%. Clay ceramic pieces were produced by uniaxial pressing and fired at temperatures varying from 700 to 1100 oC. The technological properties of the clay ceramic p...

Metal artworks are subjected to corrosion and oxidation processes due to reactive agents present in the air, water and in the ground that these objects have been in contact with for hundreds of years. This is the case for archaeological metals that are recovered from excavation sites, as well as artefacts exposed to polluted air. Stabilization of the conservation state of these objects needs pr...

China has become the world’s largest carbon emitter. Its total carbon emission output from fossil fuel combustion and cement production was approximately 10 Gt CO2 in 2013. However, less is known about carbon emissions from the production of industrial materials, such as mineral products (e.g., lime, soda ash, asphalt roofing), chemical products (e.g., ammonia, nitric acid) and metal products (...

Assessment of the presence hazardous materials in buildings is essential for improving material recyclability, increasing working safety, and lowering risk unforeseen cost delay demolition. In light these aspects, machine learning has been viewed as a promising approach to complement environmental investigations quantify finding buildings. view number related studies, this article aims review r...

A flat roof surface is known to be subjected to unusually high suction associated with a pair of vortices created under diagonally skewed wind. Prediction of the wind load and its influence on the roof system is an important engineering topic but wind tunnel testing of this situation is not easy with a scaled model. Considering the physics of wind flow for the most critical case, a possibility ...

This paper presents a systematic decision-making approach for roofing maintenance management that combines a stochastic Markovian performance prediction model with a multi-objective optimization method to determine the optimal allocation of funds and prioritization of roofs for maintenance, repair and replacement. A product model of the roof system is used to provide the data framework for coll...

The study examined the microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-Mg-Si alloy reinforced with palm kernel shell ash (PKSA) silicon carbide (SiC). matrix was SiC (2 - 8 wt.%) PKSA wt.%). double stir-casting method used to prepare hybrid composite. produced samples were evaluated based on ASTM standards. Identification phases present in composite done using a PANalytical Empyrean diffractomet...

In the past, asbestos siding, roofing, and ceiling sheets became more popular than conventional materials due to their high strength-to-weight ratio, durability, low cost. However, it was later identified that most types of are carcinogenic responsible for major lethal diseases. terms developing a substitute asbestos, different alternative organic fibers have been investigated as sustainable so...

Fiber reinforced mortars (FRM) are growingly used in several fields of building technology (e.g., façade panels, roofing, raised floors and masonry structures) as elements. One the promising type fiber for these composite materials can be textile waste originated from cloth wastes. The use this sort recycled wastes cement reinforcement within sector play a relevant role sustainability, both env...