In concrete technology, cements with a high content of Portland clinker are increasingly being replaced by blended binders lower carbon footprint. Such include blastfurnace cements, which successfully used in concretes designed for large-scale elements, self-compacting concretes, as well the precast industry. Blast furnace exhibit strength gain relative to and heat hydration. Composites that in...

This article is devoted to the study of combined effect siliceous fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), and nanosilica (nS) on cement matrix morphology size microcracks occurring in Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ) between coarse aggregate paste concrete composites based ordinary Portland (OPC). The manuscript contains analyses width (Wc) ITZ area concretes quaternary blended cements changes questio...

The cognitive theory of conceptual blending models human creativity as a mental process that combines two mental spaces into a new mental space, called a blend. According to this theory, a blend is constructed by taking the commonalities among the input mental spaces into account, to form a so-called generic space, and by projecting their non-common structure in a selective way to the novel ble...

Dr Inventor is a tool that aims to enhance the professional (Pro-c) creativity of researchers by suggesting novel hypotheses, arising from analogies between publications. Dr Inventor processes original research documents using a combination of lexical analysis and cognitive computation to identify novel comparisons that suggest new research hypotheses, with the objective of supporting a novel r...

In this paper, the connection between metaphor, metonymy, blending and humour is discussed against an analysis of puns in print advertisements featuring both visual and verbal elements. The analysis is based on the theory of conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner 1994, 1996 etc.) and on analyses of humour within that framework made by Coulson (1996, 2001, in press), but it also draws on obs...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the bonding strength, flexural strength, elastic modulus, water absorption and the expansion after water storage of new self-adhesive resin cements to commercially available dental cements. METHODS Two types (hand-mix and auto-mix) of new self-adhesive resin cements (SAC-H and SAC-A, Kuraray Medical), one conventional resin cement (Panavia F2.0), t...