Nanocem celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but the fundamental mechanisms underlying its behaviour are very poorly understood, because of its chemical and physical complexity....

During the last few decades, the construction industry has increased the use of both mineral admixtures such as fly ash and chemical admixtures such as superplasti­cizers. Mineral and chemical...

Dr. Wolfgang Dienemann, Director Global Research at the Development HeidelbergCement Technology Center, warmly welcomed the attendees, also in the name of the management. As one of the founding...

1 Introduction Cement may be affected by moisture and become slightly hydrated on the surface due to sorption of water both during production and during transport and subsequent storage in contact...