Kimberly E. Kurtis

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of three fiber treatments (beating, bleaching, and drying) were investigated to identify those that may minimize effects of environmental aging and degradation during wet/dry cycling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the time of failure of these samples as influenced by their water-to-cement (w/c) ratio, cement composition, and percent replacement of cement with fly ash, concluding that there is a safe zone for concrete made with w/c ratio lower than 0.45 and cement with unhydrated tricalcium aluminate (C 3 A) content lower than 8% where failure did not occur within the 40-year exposure period.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of nanoanatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) powder on early-age hydration kinetics of tricalcium silicate (C3S) was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the reactivity of two metakaolins, which vary principally in their surface area, and Portland cements of varying composition were examined via isothermal calorimetry for pastes at water-to-cementitious materials ratio of 0.50 containing 8% cement replacement by weight of metakaolin.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a study examining the Cl − induced corrosion resistance of austenitic, duplex, and martensitic high-strength stainless steels (HSSSss) and a pearlitic prestressing steel using cyclic potentiodynamic polarization (CPP) techniques in simulated alkaline and carbonated concrete solutions.