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Article in partnership with SICon Research Group is published in the “International Journal of Pavement Engineering”

The article is entitled: “Application of electric arc furnace slag for stabilization of different tropical soils” and is part of the October 2021 issue of the “International Journal of Pavement Engineering”.

The authors are: Emerson Cordeiro Lopes, Taciano Oliveira da Silva, Heraldo Nunes Pitanga, Leonardo Gonçalves Pedroti, José Maria Franco de Carvalho, Gustavo Henrique Nalon, Gustavo Emilio Soares de Lima e Mateus Henrique Ribeiro Rodrigues. The group is composed of researchers from the Department of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV).

This work evaluated the use of fines of oxidising electric arc furnace (EAF) steel slag (FEAF) as stabilising agents of two different soils. Tests for geotechnical characterisation of soils and chemical, physical, and morphological characterisation of FEAF were carried out. The full abstract and other information about the paper can be found in the link below:

https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2021.1990289

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