TY - CONF A1 - Manninger, Tanja A1 - Rübner, Katrin A1 - von Werder, Julia T1 - Eco friendly stabilization of loam with calcined clay and potassium hydroxide: a new approach to improve water resistance T2 - International Conference on Regeneration and Conservation of Structures (ICRCS 2022) N2 - Earth buildings and adobe construction have been in use for thousands of years. Loam is locally available, environmentally friendly and has a small CO2 footprint mainly resulting from extraction and transport. Because of these reasons loam is one of the building materials of the future. Water resistance is an important aspect when using loam as a construction material. If the structural option of building protruding roofs cannot be implemented, the water resistance of clay can be improved by stabilization. Positive properties of the material should not be diminished by stabilization. For example, the desired regulation of air humidity, which however cannot be fully preserved by cement stabilization. For an alternative and more appropriate stabilisation, different mixtures with calcined clays with alkali activator were examined. The calcination temperature for clays is usually lower than for cement and starts at 600° C. The calcined clays therefore also have a lower CO2 footprint compared to cement. To keep the mixture environmentally friendly potassium was used as alkali ion. It could be proven that the alkali activated polymer enhances water resistance of the loam mixture. Provided some further optimization the material shows potential to replace cement without compromising on the positive properties of clay. T2 - International Conference on Regeneration and Conservation of Structures (ICRCS 2022) CY - Kyoto, Japan DA - 07.09.2022 KW - Loam KW - Alkali activation PY - 2022 SP - 1 EP - 4 AN - OPUS4-56396 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -