Meet the editor

Pavel Krivenko, DSc(Eng), is currently a professor at the Department of Technology of Building Structures and Products, and Director of the Scientific Research Institute for Binders and Materials of the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Civil Engineering Institute with a diploma in Engineering in Building Materials Technology, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

(1961). He received his PhD(Eng) from the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute (1971) and his DSc(Eng) from the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine (1986). His research interests include the synthesis of alkali-activated cements and materials based on them. He has published more than 20 books and more than 1000 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is a principal investigator in a number of national and international projects in Ukraine and abroad. He is a member of three RILEM Technical Committees on alkali-activated materials, a board member of three international journals, winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of Science and Engineering (2001), and supervisor of five DSc(Eng) and 23 PhD theses.

Contents

Section 1

Alkali-Activated Concrete

and Oleksandr Gelevera

by Cristian Druta

by Saman Hedjazi

by Pascal Forquin

by Alireza Farzampour

for Application in Concrete

and Vojtĕch Václavík

Thermal Effect

Section 2

Preface III

Structure and Compressive Strength 1

Chapter 1 3

Chapter 2 29

Chapter 3 49

Chapter 4 67

Compressive Strength and Durability 89

Chapter 5 91

Chapter 6 105

Chapter 7 127

The Influence of Interfacial Transition Zone on Strength of

by Pavel Krivenko, Oleh Petropavlovskyi, Oleksandr Kovalchuk

Concrete Microstructure Characterization and Performance

Investigation of the Quasi-Static and Dynamic Confined Strength of Concretes by Means of Quasi-Oedometric Compression Tests

Compressive Behavior of Concrete under Environmental Effects

Fundamental Properties of Industrial Hybrid Cement Important

Mechanical Behavior of High-Performance Concrete under

by Zine El Abidine Rahmouni and Nadia Tebbal

by Ivan Janotka, Pavel Martauz, Michal Bačuvčík

Compressive Strength of Lightweight Concrete
