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Smart Nanoconcretes and Cement-Based Materials: Properties, Modelling and Applications explores the fundamental concepts and applications of smart nanoconcretes with self-healing, self-cleaning, photocatalytic, antibacterial, piezoelectrical, heating and conducting properties and how they are used in modern high-rise buildings, hydraulic engineering, highways, tunnels and bridges. This book is an important reference source for materials scientists and civil engineers who are looking to enhance the properties of smart nanomaterials to create stronger, more durable concrete.
List of contents
Part I: Basic Principles
1. Smart nanoconcretes: An introduction
2. Properties of Concrete in presence of nanomaterials".
3. Nano Size Particle Packing for Smart Nanoconcretes and Cement Based Materials: Theory and Technology
4. Molecular Modeling of Nanoscale Features of Cement Paste and their Correlation to Engineering Mechanical Behavior
5. Mathematical Modelling and Simulation
6. Understanding the role of hydration water and nano C-S-H colloids in concrete
7. Development of NanoCement Concrete by Top-Down and Bottom-up Nanotechnology concept
8. Prospect of Magneto-Electric Active Control for Smart Concrete Structures
9. Environmental Impact of Sustainable Green Concrete
Part II: Applications
10. Photocatalytic nanomortars
11. Fire performance of concrete containing nano-fibers and graphite nanoparticles
12. Heat storage in concrete deck with nano- and micro-encapsulated PCM
13. Electrical impedance of carbon nanofiber concrete
14. Use of phase change materials in nanoconcrete for energy savings
15. Use of Nano Technology in the Concrete Pavements
16. Thermochromic cement based-materials
17. Multifunctional Smart Nanoconcretes
18. Radiation protection characteristics of nano-concretes against photon and neutron beams
19. Genetically-enriched microbe-facilitated self-healing nanoconcrete
20. Smart cementitious nano-composites for self sensing of structures
21. Application of Self-Healing Nanoconcretes
22. Cement integrity in CO2 sequestrations sites: An effective nano based approach
23. Bio self-healing nanoconcretes
24. Mortar Containing Ceramic Nanoparticles
25. Enhancement routes of corrosion resistance in the steel reinforced concrete by using nanomaterials
26. Application of Nanosilica in Cement and Concrete
27. Reinforcing Cementitious Composites with Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Mechanical Performance - Prospects and Challenges
28. Macroscopic CNTs as promising reinforcements for concrete structures
29. Nanoseeds as modifiers of the cement hydration kinetics
About the author
is Professor, Faculty of Geosciences and Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. In addition, he has worked as a civil engineer for over 20 years, and is registered in Malaysia, the USA, and the UK.DEA (ENSCMul, France) and PhD (Cnam of Paris, France 2009). He worked as an assistant professor at Cnam of Paris (2009-2011) and researcher at ETS, Montreal, Canada (2011-2015) before joining to University of Montreal as research officer (Prud'homme's Group). His main research interests are polymer blends, crystallization of ultra thin films, nanostructuration, agrocomposites, polymer ageing, personal protective materials, rupture mechanisms of polymer materialTuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.Saeid Kakooei is Senior Lecturer at Mechanical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. His research focuses in the areas of corrosion and failure analysis
