Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6749648 | Journal of Building Engineering | 2018 | 23 Pages |
Abstract
With simulation of the cave dwellings' performance of warming in winter and cooling in summer, a humidity self-regulating material was first synthesized with riverbed sediment. A tough and porous building material could be obtained under hydrothermal conditions, and tobermorite formation during hydrothermal process was found to have a capability of improving both strength and porosity of the specimens. The solidified sediment specimens with the molar ratios of CaO to SiO2 (C/S) of 0.4 and 0.8 could enhance the moisture adsorption/desorption capacity evidently. With extra sepiolite addition, the moisture adsorption/desorption and humidity regulating capacities could be further improved due to the coexistence of tobermorite and sepiolite. For example with extra 30 mass% sepiolite addition, the amount of moisture adsorption/desorption increased nearly two times and the RH variation decreased by a factor of two comparable to that of without sepiolite addition. As such, the hydrothermally solidified riverbed sediment can be used as the “cave-dwelling” construction materials (humidity regulating materials) in cities to both improve the comfort and save energy and resources.
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Authors
Jiajun Miao, Zhenzi Jing, Li Pu, Yi Zhang,