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Accuracy in Rietveld quantitative phase analysis: a comparative study of strictly monochromatic Mo and Cu radiations
León-Reina, Laura; García-Maté, Marta; Álvarez-Pinazo, Gema; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; Vallcorba, Oriol; [et al.] (Willey online Library, 2016)This study reports 78 Rietveld quantitative phase analyses using Cu K 1, Mo K 1 and synchrotron radiations. Synchrotron powder diffraction has been used to validate the most challenging analyses. From the results for ... -
Active Sulpho-belite cements. Hydration mechanisms and mechanical properties
Álvarez-Pinazo, Gema (Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2015)The threat of climate change is considered one of the major environmental challenges for our society, where carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the main Greenhouse gases (GHGs). Every ton of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) ... -
Advanced synchrotron studies of ye'elimite-based cement pastes
García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria 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 ... -
Alite hydration mechanism in presence of ye’elimite related to BAY cements
Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Tobón, Jorge Iván; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles (2019-10-08)One alternative to decrease CO2 emissions from ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) production consists on the development of a new kind of eco-cements composed by less calcite demanding phases. That is the case of ... -
Alite-belite-ye'elimite cements: Effect of dopants on the clinker phase composition and properties
Zea-Garcia, Jesus D.; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel (2018-10-30)Clinkers with alite-belite-ye'elimite (ABY) are considered as eco-friendly cements. Clinkering (2 Kg) of two types of ABY clinkers was optimized: standard-ABY, with CaF2 and ZnO as dopants (32.6 wt% alite, 30.4 wt% β-C2S ... -
Aluminum Hydroxide Gel Characterization within a Calcium Aluminate Cement Paste by Combined Pair Distribution Function and Rietveld Analyses
Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Ichikawa, Rodrigo U.; Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; [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 ... -
Aluminum-rich belite sulfoaluminate cements: clinkering and early age hydration
Martín-Sedeño, M. Carmen; Cuberos, Antonio J M; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Álvarez-Pinazo, Gema; Ordónez, Luis M; [et al.] (Elsevier, 2009)Belite sulfoaluminate (BSA) cements have been proposed as environmentally friendly building materials, as their production may release up to 35% less CO2 into the atmosphere when compared to ordinary Portland cements. ... -
Amorphous determination in calcium sulfoaluminate materials by external and internal methods
García-Maté, Marta; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; [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 ... -
Applications of synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction in hydrated cements: high-resolution and high-pressure studies
Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria 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 ... -
Assessment of the quantitative accuracy of Rietveld/XRD analysis of crystalline and amorphous phases in fly ash
Zhao, Piqi; Liu, Xianping; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Lu, Lingchao; Sobolev, Konstantin (2017)An internal standard method based on Rietveld/XRD whole-pattern fitting analysis of fly ash is used to assess the quantitative accuracy to determine its crystalline and amorphous phases under various conditions such as ... -
Behavior of Belite cement blended with Calcium sulfoaluminate cement: an Ecocement
Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Pineda, Juan Manuel; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles (2019-09-26)Belite Portland Cements (BPC) and calcium sulfoaluminate cements (CSA) are considered as environmentally friendly cements due to their lower CO2 emissions. These ecocements (BPC and CSA) emit about 0.03 and 0.18 less tons ... -
Belite hydration at high temperature and pressure by in situ synchrotron powder diffraction
Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Fraga-López, Edmundo; Shirani, Shiva; [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 ... -
Calcium aluminate cement conversion analysed by ptychographic nanotomography
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Diaz, Ana; Trtrik, Pavel; [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 ... -
Chemistry and Mass Density of Aluminum Hydroxide Gel in Eco-Cements by Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography
Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; Trtik, Pavel; Da Silva, Julio C.; [et al.] (ACS, 2017)Eco-cements are a desirable alternative to ordinary Portland cements because of their lower CO2 footprints. Some ye’elimite-based ecocements are attracting a lot of interest. Understanding the reasons for the mechanical ... -
Clinkering and early age hydration characterization of Belite-Alite Calcium Sulfoaluminate (BACSA) cements
Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Álvarez-Pinazo, Gema; Tobón, Jorge Iván; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; [et al.] (2015-10-26)In this work, four BACSA clinkers with different compositions (belite ~ 70-55 wt %, alite ~ 10-15 wt % and ye’elimite ~ 10-15 wt %) were synthesized (at laboratory scale). Lime, gypsum, kaolin and sand were used as raw ... -
Clinkering and hydration of belite-ye'elimite-alite cement
Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Tobón, Jorge Iván; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles (Elsevier, 2017)Some belite-ye´elimite-ferrite (BYF) cements present low mechanical strengths mainly due to the slow reactivity of belite. A solution to this problem may be the activation of BYF clinkers by preparing them with a coexistence ... -
Clinkering and hydration study of non-active and active Belite-Alite-Ye'elimite (BAY) cements
Zea-Garcia, Jesus D.; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel (2017-10-17)The manufacturing process of ye'elimite rich cements emit about 15-37% less CO2 to the atmosphere than OPC. Cements that contain belite, ye’elimite and ferrite, known as BYF cements, are promising eco-friendly binders. ... -
Clinkering of calcium sulfoaluminate clinkers: polymorphism of ye'elimite
Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Santacruz-Cruz, Maria Isabel; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Zea-Garcia, Jesus D.; [et al.] (2018)The manufacture of CSA cements is more environmentally friendly than that of OPC as it releases less CO2. This reduction depends on CSA composition and is due to three factors: i) less emissions from decarbonation in the ... -
Clinkering, processing and characterisation of Alite-Belite-Ye’elimite eco-cements: from basic to applied science
Zea García, Jesús David (UMA Editorial, 2020-09-11)An eco-friendly industrial production is essential to protect our environment. The synthesis process of PC generates greenhouse gas emissions. Because of that, the cement industry is under increasing scrutiny to reduce CO2 ... -
A comparative study of experimental configurations in synchrotron pair distribution function
Zea-Garcia, Jesus D.; Gomez-de-la-Torre, Maria de los Angeles; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria (MDPI - Publisher of Open Access Journals, 2019-04-25)The identification and quantification of amorphous components and nanocrystalline phases with very small crystal sizes, smaller than ~3 nm, within samples containing crystalline phases is very challenging. However, this ...