Recent trends in ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC): Current status, challenges, and future prospects

M Amran, SS Huang, AM Onaizi, N Makul… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) combines advanced fibrous and cementitious
material technologies to achieve high strength and exceptional durability. The material tends …

Toward self-healing concrete infrastructure: review of experiments and simulations across scales

MT Nguyen, CA Fernandez, MM Haider… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cement and concrete are vital materials used to construct durable habitats and infrastructure
that withstand natural and human-caused disasters. Still, concrete cracking imposes …

Utilizing rice husk ash as supplement to cementitious materials on performance of ultra high performance concrete:–a review

MA Mosaberpanah, SA Umar - Materials Today Sustainability, 2020 - Elsevier
Yearly, approximately 750 million tons of rice husks is cultivated which generates about 160
million tons of rice husk that are eventually dumped on the environment as a waste to cover …

Production of ultra-high-performance concrete with low energy consumption and carbon footprint using supplementary cementitious materials instead of silica fume: A …

MA Hamad, M Nasr, A Shubbar, Z Al-Khafaji… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The increase in cement production as a result of growing demand in the construction sector
means an increase in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. These emissions are …

A Comprehensive Review of the Advances, Manufacturing, Properties, Innovations, Environmental Impact and Applications of Ultra-High-Performance Concrete …

G Kravanja, AR Mumtaz, S Kravanja - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
The article presents the progress and applications of ultra-high-performance concrete
(UHPC), a revolutionary material in modern construction that offers unparalleled strength …

Interpretable XGBoost–SHAP machine learning technique to predict the compressive strength of environment-friendly rice husk ash concrete

MN Uddin, LZ Li, BY Deng, J Ye - Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 2023 - Springer
Global greenhouse gas emissions from the construction concrete industry are 50% higher
than those from all other industries combined. Concrete incorporating waste and recycled …

Effect of zeolite on shrinkage and crack resistance of high-performance cement-based concrete

NC Thang, NV Tuan, KH Yang, QT Phung - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study examined the effectiveness of zeolite addition to reduce the autogenous
shrinkage of high-performance cement-based concrete (HPC). The zeolites were replaced …

Exploring the potential of agricultural waste as an additive in ultra-high-performance concrete for sustainable construction: A comprehensive review

J Zhao, M Sufian, MA Abuhussain, F Althoey… - Reviews on Advanced …, 2024 - degruyter.com
This study thoroughly reviews the recent design methods for ultra-high-performance
concrete (UHPC) with agricultural waste. The goal is to identify UHPC composites that meets …

Analysis and modelling of shrinkage and creep of reactive powder concrete

P Chen, W Zheng, Y Wang, W Chang - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
The objective of this study was to examine the shrinkage and creep of reactive power
concrete (RPC) with different steel fibre contents (0%, 1% and 2% by volume). A total of 37 …

Numerical modelling of autogenous shrinkage of rice husk ash blended cement mortar

T Lu, H Yang, H Huang, X Zhao - Advances in Cement …, 2024 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Addition of rice husk ash (RHA) is an effective internal curing method to mitigate self-
desiccation and autogenous shrinkage of hydrating cementitious materials. Although a …