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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 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

3 Active
12 Finished

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

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

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

M4L: Materials for Life

Paine, K. & Heath, A.

1/07/13 → 30/09/16

Project: Research council

Self-healing materials

Intelligent materials

Macros

Geotechnical engineering

Intelligent structures

Research Output 1995 2018

47 Article
34 Paper
12 Conference contribution
9 Doctoral Thesis
9 More

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

Marsh, A., Heath, A., Patureau, P., Evernden, M. & Walker, P., 15 Dec 2018, In : Applied Clay Science. 166, p. 250-261 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Bentonite

Alkalies

Clay minerals

montmorillonite

illite

1 Citations

A mild conditions synthesis route to produce hydrosodalite from kaolinite, compatible with extrusion processing

Marsh, A., Heath, A., Patureau, P., Evernden, M. & Walker, P., 1 Jul 2018, In : Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. p. 125-132

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Kaolin

kaolinite

Kaolinite

Extrusion

routes

Application and performance of bacteria-based self-healing concrete

Paine, K., Sharma, T., Alazhari, M., Heath, A. & Cooper, R., Jun 2018, Proceedings of Final Conference of RILEM TC 253-MCI: Microorganisms-Cementitious Materials Interactions. Bertron, A. & Jonkers, H. (eds.). Vol. 2. p. 387-394

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Bacteria

Concretes

Impurities

Permeation

Hardening

2 Citations