Building Materials

The chemistry of construction materials.


Building materials is a collective name for any natural and artifical material which is used in the building industry: natural building materials, additives, cement, concrete, building protective agents, adhesive agents etc.

The Builiding Chemistry is engaged in the materials used for construction. A number of factors play a role in the assessment of chemical building aspects, but in first line the basics of inorganic, organic and analytical chemistry.

The following list includes online available information on building chemicals and the chemistry of the materials.



Content:


Current Articles
General Information
Lecture Notes, Tutorials
Special Information
Data and Databases
Journals
Dissertations
News Archive
Research facilities and departments
Organisations



Current Articles



Cement Hydratation
Cement Hydration

The first seconds in a building’s life: X-ray diffraction studies of cement hydration on the millisecond scale.

Image: Highly dynamic hydration processes that occur during the first seconds of cement hydration were studied by time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Polycarboxylate ether additives were found to influence the formation of the initial crystalline hydration products on a molecular level.

[Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition]






General Information


Construction Chemistry
Web Directory: The Chemistry of Building Materials



Lecture Notes, Tutorials


Cement Chemistry
... and types of cement - Format: PDF

Concrete
Lecture notes on the properties of concrete materials. Arizona State University

Concrete
The science of concrete



Special Information


Ash Hydration
CFBC Ash Hydration Studies - Format: PDF

Betonite
Industrial Minerals: Bentonite factsheet. IMA

Borates
Industrial Minerals: Borate factsheet. IMA

Calcium Carbonate
Industrial Minerals: Calcium Carbonate factsheet. IMA

Cement and concrete
Information for industry professionals and students. WHD

Cement Chemistry
... and additives - Format: PDF

Diatomite
Industrial Minerals: Diatomite factsheet. IMA

Feldspar
Industrial Minerals: Feldspar factsheet. IMA

Gypsum
Statistics and Information. USGS Minerals Information

Kaolin
Industrial Minerals: Kaolin factsheet. IMA

Lime
Industrial Minerals: Lime factsheet

Limestone
A crucial and versatile industrial mineral commodity - Format: PDF

Metabolism of cement chemistry
Article, 2003. The Indian Concrete Journal - Format: PDF

Mica
Mica fact sheet

Plastic Clays
Industrial Minerals: Plastic Clays factsheet

Portland Cement
Information site. FHWA

Sepiolite
Industrial Minerals: Sepiolite factsheet. IMA

Silica
Industrial Minerals: Silicia factsheet. IMA

Talc
Industrial Minerals: Talc factsheet. IMA

Vermiculite
Industrial Minerals: Vermiculite factsheet. IMA

Wollastonite
Industrial Minerals: Wollastonite factsheet. IMA



Data and Databases


CEMDATA
Thermodynamic data for hydrated solids in Portland cement system. EMPA

Heat Transmission Properties of Insulating and Building Materials
Standard Reference Database 81. NIST



Journals


Cement and Concrete Research
The aim of Cement and Concrete Research is to publish the best research on cement, cement composites, concrete and other allied materials that incorporate cement. Elsevier

Global cement, minerals, gypsum, slag, fuels, insulation, envirotec and capital
Magazines and conferences



Dissertations


Monitoring of cement hydration
... by broadband time-domain-reflectometry dielectric spectroscopy - Format: PDF

Quantitative X-ray diffraction phase analysis of cements ...
... containing several main constituents - Format: PDF



News Archive


Viscosity-enhancing nanomaterials may double service life of concrete
NIST engineers are patenting a method that is expected to double the service life of concrete. The key is a nano-sized additive.



Research facilities and departments


Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
IBP, Stuttgart, Germany

Siegen
The Siegen University Institute for Building & Materials Chemistry

Zürich
Institute for Building Materials. ETH Zürich



Organisations


CEPMC
Council of European Producers of Materials for Construction

Eurogypsum
European federation of national associations of producers of gypsum products

Gypsum Association
A not-for-profit trade association founded in 1930, is to promote the use of gypsum while advancing the development growth, and general welfare of the gypsum industry in the United States and Canada on behalf of its member companies

IMA-Europe
Industrial Minerals Association




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