During the EDS of a hydrated mortar samples, traces of Albite and Feldspar are found. How they get synthesised during hydration?

Control specimens of mortar were prepared. When eds was performed, albite and feldspar traces were found.

05 June 2018 1,254 5 View

Why cement is still the most popular binding material?

In spite of decades of research over replacement by green agro-industrial materials, cement is still being produced at somewhat same rate. We all are well aware, cement costs us environmentallye...

05 June 2018 9,109 6 View

What is the minimum concrete porosity achieved so far ?

There are situations we need very low porosity of concrete....

02 March 2018 2,527 1 View

What laboratory tests are recommended to evaluate the self-cleaning concrete?

Self-cleaning concrete is made by employing nano-titania particles in concrete.

31 December 2017 2,627 5 View

What is the maximum compressive strength achieved with concrete so far?

I need to know the maximum compressive strength achieved so far with concrete. What name is given to this concrete ?

08 September 2015 7,318 15 View

Preprints of manuscripts

Is it better idea to put papers on Preprints.org before publication?

01 January 1970 2,078 2 View

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 View

What is the procedure to determine the permeability of concrete?

can anyone help me in this, it will help me with my research work

01 March 2021 834 3 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 View

What test should I use to compare two or three means, if data is not normally distributed but sample size is > 30 in each group?

I personally feel this as a most confusing question. As per my understanding, if sample size is > 30, and sample is skewed, we can still use paramteric approach, as it will follow Z...

01 March 2021 1,587 6 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

How to separate water from glycerol solvent in a solvent recovery vacuum distillation column?

I am currently doing my third year design project. I have been assigned to design a glycerol recovery column in vinyl acetate monomer production. The process unit before the recovery column is an...

01 March 2021 9,525 4 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

Apart from Nanosilica and CNT's what are the other nanomaterials readily available to use in concrete mixture?

Nanotechnology in concrete materials

01 March 2021 3,379 3 View

Why is the sum of the elements in a row in a Q matrix equal to zero?

When explaining substitution models, the substitutions are expressed as Q matrix. Why is the sum of the elements in a row zero?

28 February 2021 3,864 3 View