VICKSBURG, Miss. - Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) recently announced a new coating technology that has been adapted for use in geopolymer composites. This technology builds on previous research on reactive enamel coatings for reinforcing steel originally developed for use in Portland cement-based composites.
The new coating technology’s bond strengths were found to increase by more than 100% with the use of a reactive enamel coating, which can participate in geopolymerization reactions.
The ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory's Dr. Robert Moser, Dr. Paul Allison, Dr. Chuck Weiss, Dr. Phil Malone (retired), Brett Williams and Rae Gore, and UPRM’s Alfredo Diaz recently published their paper, “Improvement in the Geopolymer-to-Steel Bond Using a Reactive Vitreous Enamel Coating" in the journal Construction and Building Materials.
Details can be found at: Direct Science.com.