The research was started by a grant of the KNB
in 1990, which gave us the possibility to built the first
NMR
specially
designed for measurement of the moisture transport in building
materials.
Dutch Technology
Foundation
We have received various grants of the Dutch Technology foundation for various research items:
1995-2001 ETN.3400: Development of a measurement method to determine moisture transport processes in porous materials.
1998-2004 ETN.4448: Moisture and ion transport in porous building materials.
1998-2004 DCT.4010: Experimental and numerical research of cement based materials (cooperation with the Department of Civil Engineering of Technical University Delft).
2003-2007 DAR.5756: Effect of gels on geological
heterogeneity
of porous media: An MRI and X-ray computer-aided tomography
(cooperation
with the Department of Applied Earth Sciences of Technical
University
Delft).
2006-2010 DCB.7045 Explosive
spalling
of concrete: toward a model for fire resistant design of
concrete elements (cooperation
with the Department of Civil Engineering of Technical University
Delft).
2007-2013 ECB 6572 Salt
weathering of porous building materials
2011-2015 10978 Measuring, Modelling and Monitoring Chloride ingress and Corrosion initiation in cracked concrete (cooperation with the Department of Civil Engineering of Technical University Delft).
2011-2015 10968 An intergal in-situ chloride sensing and monitoring systen for concrete structures (cooperation with the Department of Civil Engineering of Technical University Delft and MESA+ University of Twente).
2011-2015 10971 Modelling, non-destructive testing and Li-based
remediation of deleterious Alkali-Silica Reaction in concrete
structures.
