Andrew Heath

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Research interests

Andrew Heath's research interests are sustainable construction materials, including earth construction, low carbon concretes (especially geopolymer concrete) and self-healing concretes. Additional research is on physical and chemical testing and modelling of soils and geopolymers, landslide assessment and transportation infrastructure engineering.

Willing to supervise doctoral students

He is willing to supervise PhD students in the fields of sustainable construction materials, in particular earth based materials, geopolymers and self-healing concrete, as well as modelling earth materials in landslide, building and foundation applications.

Education/Academic qualification

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

Award Date: 19 Dec 2002

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Master in Science, University of California, Berkeley

Award Date: 1 Jul 2000

Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Cape Town

Award Date: 1 Dec 1994

Keywords

TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
materials

TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements
TF Railroad engineering and operation
TH Building construction

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Projects

3 Active
13 Finished

Recycling of waste wash water in ready mix concrete plants in Jordan

Heath, A. & Paine, K.

Royal Academy Of Engineering

1/04/19 → 9/04/21

Project: UK charity

RM4L - Resilient Materials for Life

Paine, K., Ball, R., Heath, A., Tan, L. & Tzoura, E.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

3/04/17 → 2/04/22

Project: Research council

Preparing the South African Built Environment for Climate Change Resilience (SABER)

Natarajan, S., Coley, D., Heath, A., Kershaw, T. & Maskell, D.

Royal Academy Of Engineering

1/03/17 → 15/08/20

Project: UK charity

Developing Earth Based Building Products Utilising Solid Wastes

Walker, P., Heath, A. & Maskell, D.

The British Council

1/04/17 → 31/03/20

Project: Central government, health and local authorities

International Research Initiator Scheme - Development and implementation of sustainable construction materials in South Africa and the UK

Heath, A., Paine, K. & Orr, J.

1/01/16 → 29/02/16

Project: Research-related funding

Research Output

52 Article
34 Paper
13 Conference contribution
4 Chapter
7 More

Advances in alkali-activation of clay minerals

Khalifa, A. Z., Cizer, Ö., Pontikes, Y., Heath, A., Patureau, P., Bernal, S. A. & Marsh, A. T. M., 30 Jun 2020, In : Cement and Concrete Research. 132, 106050.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

Open Access

Compressive strength of novel alkali activated stabilised earth

Holur Narayanaswamy, A., Walker, P., Venkatarama Reddy, B. V., Heath, A. & Maskell, D., 30 Jun 2020, In : ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. 32, 6, (ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0003188.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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Discussion of “Earth concrete. Stabilization revisited”

Marsh, A. T. M., Heath, A., Walker, P., Reddy, B. V. V. & Habert, G., 30 Apr 2020, In : Cement and Concrete Research. 130, 105991.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Effect of carbonation on bacteria-based self-healing of cementitious composites

Tan, L., Reeksting, B., Ferrandiz-Mas, V., Heath, A., Gebhard, S. & Paine, K., 15 May 2020, In : Construction and Building Materials. 257, 119501.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Mechanical and thermal properties, and comparative life-cycle impacts, of stabilised earth building products

Narayanaswamy, A. H., Walker, P., Venkatarama Reddy, B. V., Heath, A. & Maskell, D., 20 May 2020, In : Construction and Building Materials. 243, 118096.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Datasets

Dataset for "Phase formation behaviour in alkali activation of clay mixtures"

Marsh, A. (Creator), Heath, A. (Supervisor), Patureau, P. (Supervisor), Evernden, M. (Supervisor) & Walker, P. (Supervisor), University of Bath, 17 Apr 2019

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00563

Dataset

Dataset for "Influence of clay minerals and associated minerals in alkali activation of soils"

Marsh, A. (Creator), Heath, A. (Supervisor), Patureau, P. (Supervisor), Evernden, M. (Supervisor) & Walker, P. (Supervisor), University of Bath, 10 Sep 2019

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00565

Dataset

Data set for journal paper "Chemical aspects related to using recycled geopolymers as an aggregate"

Chaliasou, A. (Creator), Heath, A. (Supervisor), Paine, K. (Supervisor) & Holley, J. (Supervisor), University of Bath, 2018

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00442

Dataset

Dataset for "Alkali activation behaviour of un-calcined montmorillonite and illite clay minerals"

Marsh, A. (Creator), Heath, A. (Supervisor), Patureau, P. (Supervisor), Evernden, M. (Supervisor) & Walker, P. (Supervisor), University of Bath, 7 Feb 2019

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00591

Dataset