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Browsing Research Articles (Civil Engineering) by UP Author "Boshoff, W.P. (Billy)"
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Jayasinghe, Amila; Orr, John; Hawkins, Will; Ibell, Tim; Boshoff, W.P. (Billy)
(Elsevier, 2022-04)
The present climate emergency demands the construction industry to minimise the carbon footprint of concrete buildings. In this paper, the potential different optimisation strategies to reduce ‘cradle-to-gate’ embodied ...
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Combrinck, R.; Kayondo, M.; Meyer, D.M.; Boshoff, W.P. (Billy)
(Springer, 2022-08)
Bleed water measurement is a critical part for the determination and prediction of the incidence of plastic shrinkage cracking in concrete. This research discusses the different bleeding measurement methods that are largely ...
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Alexandre, V.J.F.; Boshoff, W.P. (Billy); Combrinck, R.
(Elsevier, 2023-11)
Textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) offers a solution to the drawback associated with the production of cement and
its use in construction. It also promotes the design of concrete in a post-cracking stage as the yarns bridge ...
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Visagie, J.W.; Moelich, G.M.; Meyer, D.; Kanyenze, S.S.; Kayondo, M.; Boshoff, W.P. (Billy); Combrinck, R.
(Springer, 2023-01)
Surface curing of concrete is known to mitigate potential plastic shrinkage cracking. In this research, water and three curing compounds were used to investigate the efficacy of liquid curing on plastic shrinkage cracking ...
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De Villiers, Wibke I.; Van Zijl, G.P.A.G. (Gideon); Boshoff, W.P. (Billy)
(Sage, 2021-07)
The most commonly cited obstacles to the uptake of alternative masonry units on a meaningful scale, despite significant research investment, are a lack of standards and understanding of their structural behaviour. This ...
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Deysel, Renier Christiaan; Boshoff, W.P. (Billy); Smit, Martha Sophia
(Elsevier, 2023-09)
Plastic shrinkage cracking occurs when fresh concrete is drying and restrained from deformation, which typically
results in cracking. The tensile stresses causing cracking result from the negative capillary pressure that ...
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Jayasinghe, Amila; Orr, John; Ibell, Tim; Boshoff, W.P. (Billy)
(Elsevier, 2022-06)
Minimising carbon emissions from the building construction industry is of paramount importance in the present context due to the rising concerns of climate change. This paper explores the potential of minimising embodied ...
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De Villiers, Wibke I.; Van Zijl, G.P.A.G. (Gideon); Boshoff, W.P. (Billy)
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2021-03)
South Africa has a housing shortage estimated in excess of 2 million units. This backlog is being
addressed predominantly with the construction of 40 m2 low-income, single-storey, detached,
state-subsidised houses built ...
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Wyrzykowski, Mateusz; Schroefl, Christof; Toropovs, Nikolajs; Lura, Pietro; Snoeck, Didier; Bettencourt Ribeiro, António; De Maeijer, Patricia Kara; Moon, Juhyuk; Assmann, Alexander; Igarashi, Shin-Ichi; Klemm, Agnieszka; Almeida, Fernando C.R.; Boshoff, W.P. (Billy); Erk, Kendra A.; Falikman, Vyatcheslav; Agostinho, Livia Borba; Mechtcherine, Viktor
(Springer, 2024-04-22)
New methods are proposed for the verification of the presence of superabsorbent polymers (SAP) in freshly mixed concrete and estimation of SAP quantity. The methods are in general based on flushing concrete with excess ...