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4D Early Age Cement Hydration Analysis by Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography and Machine Learning Segmentation
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Díaz, Ana; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel
; Trtik, Pavel; Holler, Mirko[et al.] (2022-06)
Cement manufacturing is responsible for ~7% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions and hence, decreasing the CO2 footprint, in a sustainable, safe and cost-effective way, is a top priority. To fully understand the binder main ... -
4D nanoimaging of early age cement hydration.
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Díaz, Ana; Trtik, Pavel; Holler, Mirko; Rack, Alexander; Lukic, Bratislav; Brun, Emmanuel; Salcedo, Inés R.; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Springer Nature, 2023-05-08)
Despite a century of research, our understanding of cement dissolution and precipitation processes at early ages is very limited. This is due to the lack of methods that can image these processes with enough spatial ... -
Accuracy in Cement Hydration Investigations: Combined X-ray Microtomography and Powder Diffraction Analyses
Salcedo, Inés R.; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Shirani, Shiva; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (MDPI, 2021-11-17)
Cement hydration is a very complex set of processes. The evolution of the crystalline phases during hydration can be accurately followed by X-ray powder diffraction data evaluated by the Rietveld method. However, accurate ... -
Accuracy in cement hydration investigations: Combined X-ray microtomography and powder diffraction analyses
Salcedo, Inés R.; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Shirani, Shiva; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (2022-06)
Cements are multi-phase materials that can be well understood using a multi-technique approach. Furthermore, the hydration of cement pastes is a very complex set of processes. In this work, we focus on the accuracy of the ... -
Activation of LC3 binders by C-S-H nucleation seeding with a new tailored admixture for low-carbon cements.
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Mazanec, Oliver; Dalla-Libera, Alessandro; Dhers, Sebastien; Schwesig, Peter; Borralleras, Pere; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Ernst & Sohn GmbH, 2023-12-06)
The use of supplementary cementitious materials is currently the most favorable strategy for reducing CO2 emissions in cements. Limestone Calcined Clay Cements, LC3, are a type of cement that allows the reduction of CO2 ... -
Activation of LC3 binders by C-S-H nucleation seeding with a new tailored admixture for low-carbon cements.
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Manzanec, Oliver; Dalla-Libera, Alessandro; Dhers, Sebastien; Schwesig, Peter; Borralleras, Pere; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (2023)
The use of supplementary cementitious materials is currently the most favorable strategy for reducing CO2 emissions in cements. Limestone Calcined Clay Cements, LC3, are a type of cement that allows the reduction of CO2 ... -
Activation of LC3 low-carbon cements by C-S-H seeding.
Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Mazanec, Oliver; Dalla-Libera, Alessandro; Dhers, Sebastien; Schwesig, Peter; Borralleras, Pere; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (2023)
Portland-based Limestone Calcined Clay Cements (LC3) are attracting a lot of the attention from scholars and field applications due to the reduction in CO2 emissions. However, their low mechanical strengths at early ages ... -
Advanced quantitative synchrotron X-ray imaging of cement micro- and meso- structures
(UMA Editorial, 2023)La tesis se centra en la investigación relacionada con la producción y el comportamiento de varios tipos de cemento, particularmente el cemento Portland y los cementos belíticos, así como los cementos de aluminato cálcico. ... -
Advanced synchrotron studies of ye'elimite-based cement pastes
García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel (2018-07-18)
Synchrotron characterization techniques [1] are being used to study Portland-based cements and recently also CSA and related cements. A key property of these techniques is that they do not require sample preparation, so ... -
Aluminum Hydroxide Gel Characterization within a Calcium Aluminate Cement Paste by Combined Pair Distribution Function and Rietveld Analyses
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Ichikawa, Rodrigo U.; Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Turrillas, Xavier; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Elsevier, 2017-06)
There are many commercially important multiphase materials which contain amorphous phases, such as cement pastes, porcelains, glass-ceramics or pharmaceutical compounds. However, the analysis of amorphous phase(s) within ... -
Amorphous determination in calcium sulfoaluminate materials by external and internal methods
García-Maté, Marta; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Cuesta-García, Ana María; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Baco, Isabelle; Morin, Vincent; Walenta, Günther; Gartner, Ellis; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles[et al.] (ICE Publishing, 2014)
External standard methodology has been successfully applied to quantify the known amounts of amorphous component that are increasingly added to cement-related materials. The consistency and accuracy of the methodology were ... -
ANALYSIS OF BUILDING MATERIALS BY SYNCHROTRON X-RAY IMAGING
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (-, 2021-01)
Building materials have complex hierarchical microstructures. The largest components are coarse aggregates with dimensions larger than a few centimetres and the smallest ones are the calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel ... -
Applications of synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction in hydrated cements: high-resolution and high-pressure studies
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Popescu, Catalin; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (2016-07-12)
The main aim of this study is to apply synchrotron radiation techniques for the study of hydrated cement pastes. In particular, the tetracalcium aluminoferrite phase, C4AF in cement nomenclature, is the major iron-containing ... -
Belite cements and their activation
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Ayuela, Andrés; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2020-11)
Belite cements, BCs, containing mainly belite, alite and calcium aluminates, are currently used as low heat cements. These binders produce high amounts of C–S–H gel and have very good durability properties which are reviewed. ... -
Belite hydration at high temperature and pressure by in situ synchrotron powder diffraction
Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Fraga-López, Edmundo; Shirani, Shiva; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (2020-10-16)
Portland cements are currently used as Oil‐Well‐Cements for the sheath between the metal casing and the borehole. At high pressures and temperatures, the resulting C-S-H gel(s) is partly unstable and it can react to give ... -
C-S-H seeding activation of Portland and Belite cements: An enlightening in situ synchrotron powder diffraction study
Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Mazanec, Oliver; Borralleras, Pere; Weldert, Kai S.; Gastaldi, Daniela; Canonico, Fulvio; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Elsevier, 2022-11)
C-S-H seeding in Portland cements is well known from basic scientific works and field applications. Moreover, this activation approach could be beneficial for low-CO2 cements under development where a general drawback is ... -
Calcium aluminate cement conversion analysed by ptychographic nanotomography
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Díaz, Ana; Trtrik, Pavel; Holler, Mirko; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Elsevier, 2020-08-17)
Calcium aluminate cements are used for special applications but are nowadays banned for general structural purposes due to the calcium aluminate hydrate conversion, that has led, for concretes fabricated with high water ... -
Cementos de arcillas calcinadas y caliza preparados en la Universidad de Málaga
Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Bernal, Isabel M.R.; Redondo-Soto, Cinthya; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Shirani, Shiva; Pérez-Bravo, Raquel; Franco-Duro, Francisco Ignacio; García-Maté, Marta; Salcedo, Inés R.; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (2022)
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Cementos de baja huella de carbono con arcillas bentoníticas activadas.
Vallina, Diego; Rodríguez-Ruiz, María Dolores; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Cuesta-García, Ana María; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles[et al.] (2024)
En este trabajo, se presenta una estrategia de caracterización de arcillas bentoníticas y su activación térmica para su uso como SCM en cementos de baja huella de carbono. Para ello, se presentará el estudio de dos ... -
Characterisation of SCMs using the R3 test for low carbon cements.
Koufany, Imane; Redondo-Soto, Cinthya; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Rodríguez-Ruiz, María Dolores; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles[et al.] (2024)
The cement industry is working to reduce its environmental impact by replacing clinker with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), including pozzolanic materials. This study examines three types of pozzolanic materials: ...