Project Description

The main theme of the proposed facility is to develop Sustainable Green Material for construction and other applications like low cost materials in 3D printing, heritage structures, grouts, soil stabilizers, highway materials. The proposed facility will enable the researchers to study the various properties like porosity, distribution of pore size, volume of pores and basic composition of raw materials of various cementitious materials at microstructural level. The knowledge of microstructure can help in understanding the performance and properties of various materials at macro scale.

Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) equipment has been extensively used for the evaluation of porosity, distribution of pore size, and volume of pores to characterize the concrete materials and cementitious materials. This can be used for any composite materials like nano-reinforced, geopolymer to test how well the microstructure is developed and packing density of substitute materials.

Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) Spectrometer equipment is used to measure the basic compositions of raw materials include calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, alumina, silica, and iron oxide.