Review, Ellis et al: Toward electrochemical synthesis of cement—An electrolyzer-based process for decarbonating CaCO3 while producing useful gas streams
https://www.understanding-cement.com/zero-carbon-cement.html
An over-the-shoulder look at ASR in concrete as seen using the SEM.
The UC review of "Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete: A World Review" edited by Iam Sims and Alan Poole.
Suggest an experiment with cement for the Understanding Cement blog
https://www.understanding-cement.com/suggest-an-experiment.html
Essential viewing for anyone with technical oversight of cement manufacturing, concrete mix design/production or concrete petrography: video of experiment to test fine limestone reactivity in cem...
https://www.understanding-cement.com/fine-limestone-in-cement.html
Demonstrates the measurement of mortar porosity using SEM backscattered electron imaging.
Describes a method of estimating the water-cement ratio of hardened concrete using SEM images of polished sections of reference pastes.
https://www.understanding-cement.com/water-cement-ratio-estimate.html
Cement calculator in spreadsheet format for EN 197-1 cements.
Glenfinnan Viaduct, Scotland: the world's first mass concrete structure?
https://www.understanding-cement.com/glenfinnan-viaduct.html
Mesocrystals - structure of sea urchin spines may enhance concrete performance.
The effect on paste microstructure of poor concrete curing is shown, with an example illustrated with an SEM image.
SEM introduction - a brief overview of how the SEM and EDX systems work.
This website is being updated so that the pages are mobile-friendly. While doing this, the sequence of blog pots in the list below has got a bit scrambled, with some older posts appearing near th...
https://www.understanding-cement.com/cement-blog.html#Updating-of-website-pages
Brief experiment to show that cement paste reacts with glass in a form of asr.
Details of the Understanding Cement book distributor in India.
Kiln rings - proposal for informal project on cement kiln rings