Publications by Ruben Anton Snellings

Properties and occurrence of clay resources for use as supplementary cementitious materials: a paper of RILEM TC 282-CCL

Adrian Alujas Diaz, Ruben Anton Snellings, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh

The use of clays as resource of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) for a new generation of low-carbon cements and concretes is currently the subject of intense research efforts. To this purpose, a large number of clay resources have been explored, ...

SPRINGER2022

Report of RILEM TC 267-TRM phase 3: validation of the R-3 reactivity test across a wide range of materials

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Diana Londoño Zuluaga, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh

RILEM TC 267 TRM- "Tests for Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials" recommends the Rapid Reliable Relevant (R-3) test as a method for determining the chemical reactivity of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in Portland cement blends. ...

SPRINGER2022

The Rise of Portland Cements

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings

This chapter tells the story of Portland cement, from its invention in the tured mineral product. The success story of Portland cement is rooted in the unique combination of the abundance of its raw materials, the reactivity of the high-temperature clinker ...

MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER2022

Paper of RILEM TC 282-CCL: mineralogical characterization methods for clay resources intended for use as supplementary cementitious material

Adrian Alujas Diaz, Ruben Anton Snellings, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh

To respond to the rapid introduction and development of calcined clays as supplementary cementitious material (SCM), the toolbox of characterization methods for cementitious materials requires extension to raw clay characterization. Borrowing concepts and ...

SPRINGER2022

Report of RILEM TC 267-TRM: Improvement and robustness study of lime mortar strength test for assessing reactivity of SCMs

Mohsen Ben Haha, Mathieu Antoni, Karen Scrivener, Shashank Bishnoi, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Anuj Parashar, Yuvaraj Dhandapani

RILEM TC 267-TRM is studying tests for the reactivity supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). In the first phase, the lime reactivity (LR) test, which is standardised in Indian standard (IS)-1727, gave promising correlations with 90-days cement mortar ...

SPRINGER2022

Report of RILEM TC 267-TRM phase 2: optimization and testing of the robustness of the R3 reactivity tests for supplementary cementitious materials

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Shashank Bishnoi, François Henri Avet, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Anuj Parashar, Diana Londoño Zuluaga, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh

The results of phase 1 of an interlaboratory test, coordinated by the RILEM TC 267-TRM "Tests for Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials" showed that the R-3 (rapid, relevant, reliable) test method, by measurement of heat release or bound water ...

SPRINGER2022

Interlaboratory Test Program to Determine the Precision of the R3 Test Method (ASTM C1897-20) for Measuring Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings, Diana Londoño Zuluaga

The substitution of portland clinker by supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) is one of the main avenues for the further decarbonization of cement production. To secure future SCM supplies, generic and performance-related test methods for SCMs are re ...

AMER SOC TESTING MATERIALS2022

Alite-ye'elimite clinker: Hydration kinetics, products and microstructure

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li

This paper presents the hydration kinetics, products and microstructure of an alite-ye'elimite clinker containing 4 wt% of ye'elimite to boost the early strength development. Isothermal calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, backscattered scanning electron micros ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Quantification of amorphous siliceous fly ash in hydrated blended cement pastes by X-ray powder diffraction

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li

X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD)-based quantitative phase analysis is a common technique for studying the hydration of cementitious systems. Hydrated cements often comprise several amorphous or nanocrystalline phases. This paper presents a protocol for the ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2019

Rapid, Robust, and Relevant (R3) Reactivity Test for Supplementary Cementitious Materials

Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li

Although supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) are now commonly accepted and widely used, consensus has not been reached for methods to test their chemical reactivity. A multitude of test methods exist but often fall short on one or more of the key f ...

AMER CONCRETE INST2019

Report of TC 238-SCM: hydration stoppage methods for phase assemblage studies of blended cements-results of a round robin test

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings, Yuvaraj Dhandapani

2018

Reactivity tests for supplementary cementitious materials: RILEM TC 267-TRM phase 1

Mohsen Ben Haha, Mathieu Antoni, Karen Scrivener, Shashank Bishnoi, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Anuj Parashar, Yuvaraj Dhandapani

A primary aim of RILEM TC 267-TRM: Tests for Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) is to compare and evaluate the performance of conventional and novel SCM reactivity test methods across a wide range of SCMs. To this purpose, a round ro ...

SPRINGER2018

Development of a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test method to evaluate the pozzolanic reactivity of calcined kaolinitic clays

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Adrian Alujas Diaz, Ruben Anton Snellings

The present paper introduces a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test to predict the pozzolanic activity of calcined clays with kaolinite contents ranging from 0 to 95%. The test is based on the correlation between the chemical reactivity of calcined ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

The pore solution of blended cements: a review

Barbara Lothenbach, Ruben Anton Snellings

This paper is the work of working group 3 of the RILEM Technical Committee on Hydration and Microstructure of Concrete with SCM (TC 238-SCM). The pore solution is an essential but often overlooked part of hydrated cements. The composition of the cement por ...

Springer2016

Rapid screening tests for supplementary cementitious materials: past and future

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings

Rapid screening tests for supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) have been in use for over 150 years. Over the years a multitude of methods have been put forward to predict the strength development of SCMblended mortars and concrete. This paper summar ...

Springer2016

Properties and pozzolanic reactivity of flash calcined dredging sediments

Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings

Dredging of ports, harbours and waterways generates vast amounts of sediments that find few applications and need to be disposed of. In the port of Antwerp, Belgium, each year 450,000 t (dry matter) of dredging sediments are mechanically dewatered and stoc ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

TC 238-SCM - hydration and microstructure of concrete with SCMs: State of the art on methods to determine degree of reaction of SCMs

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Ruben Anton Snellings

This paper is the work of working group 2 of the RILEM TC 238-SCM. Its purpose is to review methods to estimate the degree of reaction of supplementary cementitious materials in blended (or composite) cement pastes. We do not consider explicitly the wider ...

Springer2015

Surface Chemistry of Calcium Aluminosilicate Glasses

Ruben Anton Snellings

The surface chemistry of synthetic calcium aluminosilicate glasses exposed to aqueous solutions of varying pH was described using zeta potential measurements and batch surface titrations. Element release and proton consumption were measured to characterize ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Alkali Activation of AOD Stainless Steel Slag Under Steam Curing Conditions

Ruben Anton Snellings, Muhammad Salman

Crystalline argon oxygen decarburization slag, in powdery form, was investigated for its hydration potential by alkali activation and curing at 80 degrees C. Na-silicate and K-silicate of the same modulus were used as activators. Isothermal calorimetry at ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Pozzolanic activity of mechanochemically and thermally activated kaolins in cement

Karen Scrivener, Mohammadhadi Kazemi Kamyab, Ruben Anton Snellings

This paper reports on the mechanochemical activation by intensive grinding as an alternative way to produce pozzolanically reactive metakaolin. The physicochemical properties, pozzolanic reactivity and impact on cement hydration of mechanochemically and th ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015