Burnt Clay Brick Aggregate for Internal Curing of Concrete under Adverse Curing Conditions

Self-healing ability of cracks in alkali-activated slag systems incorporating superabsorbent polymers

“…In addition to the above strategies, internal curing has proven to be effective in reducing autogenous shrinkage in both Portland cement and alkali-activated binder systems [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Various materials, such as recycled aggregates [20,21], burnt clay brick [22], lightweight aggregates [23], cenospheres [24], and cellulose fibres [25,26] have been investigated as internal curing agents. Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) are regarded as the most promising internal curing agents, and they are also the most widely used in the current research on internal curing [14,27,28].…”