Members of the research group SICon publish an article in the “Materials Journal”.
The article “Effects Of Post-Fire Curing on Self-Sensing Behavior of Smart Mortars” is available in vol. 120, 2023, of the journal.
The authors are researchers of the Departments of Civil Engineering and Physics of the Federal University of Viçosa. Those are: Gustavo Henrique Nalon, José Carlos Lopes Ribeiro, Leonardo Gonçalves Pedroti, Eduardo Nery Duarte de Araújo, José Maria Franco de Carvalho, Gustavo Emilio Soares de Lima e Sukarno Ferreira.
This paper evaluated the viability of using cementitious materials containing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or carbon-black nanoparticles (CBNs) for damage recovery detection and self-monitoring of strain and stress of fire-damaged structures subjected to post-fire curing.
The full abstract and others informations about the papper can be found at the link: http://dx.doi.org/10.14359/51738459