A review on effects of curing, sheltering, and CO2 concentration upon natural carbonation of concrete

SO Ekolu - Construction and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
In the literature, the effects of curing, sheltering and CO 2 concentration under natural
carbonation are not fully understood. There is either controversy or limited research …

Model for practical prediction of natural carbonation in reinforced concrete: Part 1-formulation

SO Ekolu - Cement and Concrete Composites, 2018 - Elsevier
A model is proposed for prediction of natural carbonation in reinforced concrete (RC)
structures, and is potentially applicable to existing and new RC structures. The major …

Implications of global CO2 emissions on natural carbonation and service lifespan of concrete infrastructures–reliability analysis

SO Ekolu - Cement and Concrete Composites, 2020 - Elsevier
The rise in atmospheric [CO 2] globally has consequences on economic infrastructures of
concrete such as buildings, bridges, silos, amongst others. The present study employed a …

Model for natural carbonation prediction (NCP): Practical application worldwide to real life functioning concrete structures

SO Ekolu - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
A new, natural carbonation prediction (NCP) model was used to make predictions that were
in turn compared with actual data measurements done on 69 real life functioning concrete …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term 20-year performance of surface coating repairs applied to façades of reinforced concrete buildings

R Creasey, JP Andrews, SO Ekolu, D Kruger - Case studies in construction …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study was conducted to evaluate effectiveness of surface coating repairs after
20 years since their application on façade panels of two existing concrete buildings. The …

A case study on practical prediction of natural carbonation for concretes containing supplementary cementitious materials

S Ekolu, F Solomon - KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The present study investigated the prediction of natural carbonation, focussing on concrete
construction containing supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). Modern concrete …

Temperature-Induced Effect of Climate Change on Natural Carbonation of Concrete Structures

SO Ekolu - ACI Materials Journal, 2023 - search.proquest.com
Major cities worldwide are densely built with concrete structures. Moreover, urban
infrastructures partly cause, and are in return adversely impacted by, the urban heat island …

Predicted carbonation of existing concrete building based on the Indonesian tropical micro-climate

M Hilmy, H Prabowo - IOP Conference Series: Earth and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper is aimed to predict the carbonation progress based on the previous mathematical
model. It shortly explains the nature of carbonation including the processes and effects …

[PDF][PDF] Application of a new natural carbonation prediction (NCP) model to evaluation of durability design factors-strength, cover, and cement type

SO Ekolu - ujcontent.uj.ac.za
In this paper, durability design parameters that are typically specified in structural design
codes, were evaluated for their impacts on service lifespan. These parameters comprising …