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Research interests
Andrew Heath's research interests are in laboratory testing and modelling of soils and geopolymers, landslide assessment, transportation infrastructure engineering, and the use of earth, waste and other sustainable materials in construction.
Willing to supervise PhD
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
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Master in Science, University of California, Berkeley
Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Cape Town
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 2006 2022
RM4L - Resilient Materials for Life
Paine, K., Ball, R., Heath, A., Tan, L. & Tzoura, E.
3/04/17 → 2/04/22
Project: Research council
Developing Earth Based Building Products Utilising Solid Wastes
Walker, P., Heath, A. & Maskell, D.
1/04/17 → 31/03/19
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
IAPP: Effect of Climate Change on Built Environment Regulatory Systems and Related Policies
Natarajan, S., Coley, D., Heath, A., Kershaw, T. & Maskell, D.
1/03/17 → 28/02/19
Project: UK charity
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 › International Relations Office Funding
Self-healing materials
Intelligent materials
Macros
Geotechnical engineering
Intelligent structures
Research Output 1995 2018
A mild conditions synthesis route to produce hydrosodalite from kaolinite, compatible with extrusion processing
Marsh, A., Heath, A., Patureau, P., Evernden, M. & Walker, P. 16 Jan 2018 In : Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. p. 125-132Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Kaolin
kaolinite
Kaolinite
Extrusion
routes
Application of expanded perlite encapsulated bacteria and growth media for self-healing concrete
Alazhari, M., Sharma, T., Heath, A., Cooper, R. & Paine, K. Jan 2018 In : Construction and Building Materials. 160, p. 610-619 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
calcium acetate
Bacteria
Concretes
Nutrients
Calcium compounds
5
Citations
Alkaliphilic Bacillus species show potential application in concrete crack repair by virtue of rapid spore production and germination then extracellular calcite formation
Sharma, T., Alazhari, M., Heath, A., Paine, K. & Cooper, R. 1 May 2017 In : Journal of Applied Microbiology. 122, 5, p. 1233-1244Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Calcium Carbonate
Germination
Spores
Bacillus
Phase-Contrast Microscopy
Chemical aspects related to using recycled geopolymers as an aggregate
Chaliasou, N., Heath, A., Paine, K. & Calabria-Holley, J. 6 Nov 2017 In : Advances in Cement Research. p. 1-10Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Geopolymers
Alkalies
Portland cement
Leaching
Mortar
The effect of microbiological agents on the efficiency of bio-based repair systems for concrete
Alazhari, M. 2017 294 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Open Access
File
Repair
Concretes
Bacteria
Mortar
Cracks
Datasets
Dataset for application of expanded perlite encapsulated bacteria and growth media for self-healing concrete
Paine, K. (Creator), Alazhari, M. (Creator), Sharma, T. (Creator), Cooper, R. (Creator), Heath, A. (Creator), University of Bath, 2017
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00448
Dataset
Data set for journal paper "Chemical aspects related to using recycled geopolymers as an aggregate"
Chaliasou, N. (Creator), University of Bath, 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00442
Dataset