"Geopolymers and Other Geosynthetics" ed. by Mazen Alshaaer, Han-Yong Jeon

This volume is dedicated to geopolymers that have attractive engineering and environmental characteristics, there are some challenges in commercializing these materials. In this book, these challenges will be addressed along with introducing the functional geopolymers as an effective approach to commercializing these materials and making them economically feasible.

Geopolymers are applied to material classes that are chemically transformed from low crystallinity aluminusilicates to three-dimensional inorganic polymers (tectosilicates). The resulting material has properties similar to natural minerals, so it is called artificial rock. However, these materials exhibit a chemical composition and mineralogical structure similar to feldspar, feldspathoidal, and zeolites consisting of a polymeric Si–O– Al framework, with a microcrystalline or an amorphous structure. Although


Contents
1.Introductory Chapter: Case Studies of Functional Geopolymers
2.Advanced Geopolymerization Technology
3.Summary of Some Selected Characterization Methods of Geopolymers
4.Geopolymer Bricks Using Iron Ore Tailings, Slag Sand, Ground Granular Blast Furnace Slag and Fly Ash
5.Utilization of Iron Ore Mines Waste as Civil Construction Material through Geopolymer Reactions
6.Survey of Bauxite Resources, Alumina Industry and the Prospects of the Production of Geopolymer Composites from the Resulting by-product
7.Thermal Evolution of Geopolymer in the Process of High-Temperature Treatment
8.Review of Sustainable Geosynthetic Development Trend with Environmental Adaptive and Eco-Environmental Performances Point of View
9.Analysis of the Creep and the Influence on the Modulus Improvement Factor (MIF) in Polyolefin Geocells Using the Stepped Isothermal Method
10.The Assessment Strategy for Selecting and Evaluating Geoenvironmental Remediation