TY - CHAP AU - Pranab Das AU - Beulah Matcha AU - Nabil Hossiney AU - Mothi Krishna Mohan AU - Anirban Roy AU - Arun Kumar ED - Mazen Alshaaer ED - Han-Yong Jeon Y1 - 2018-12-05 PY - 2018 T1 - Utilization of Iron Ore Mines Waste as Civil Construction Material through Geopolymer Reactions N2 - Geopolymers are applied to material classes that are chemically transformed from low crystallinity aluminusilicates to three-dimensional inorganic polymers (tectosilicates). The resulting material has properties similar to natural minerals, so it is called artificial rock. However, these materials exhibit a chemical composition and mineralogical structure similar to feldspar, feldspathoidal, and zeolites consisting of a polymeric Si–O– Al framework, with a microcrystalline or an amorphous structure. Although geopolymers have attractive engineering and environmental characteristics, there are some challenges in commercializing these materials. In this book, these challenges will be addressed along with introducing the functional geopolymers as an effective approach to commercializing these materials and making them economically feasible. BT - Geopolymers and Other Geosynthetics SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.81709 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.81709 SN - 978-1-78985-539-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -