Richard Ball

Personal profile

Research interests

Richard’s research interests are focused on microstructure/macrostructure property relationships of materials, setting reactions, sensors, degradation processes, water transport mechanisms, polymeric and ceramic materials for 3D printing, conservation materials, photocatalytic coatings and materials for improving the indoor air quality of buildings.

He is currently co-investigator on the EPSRC research grant ‘Aerial Additive Building Manufacturing: Distributed Unmanned Aerial Systems for in-situ manufacturing of the built environment’, 'Healthy housing for the Displaced', and 'Resilient Materials for Life (RM4L)'. In addition he was principal investigator on the EPSRC grants ‘An Electrochemical Approach to Study Carbonation of Novel Lime Based Materials’ and ‘Experimentally verified atomistic modelling of lime in construction materials’. He has recieved funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the British Council, and the Royal Society.

Willing to supervise PhD

Richard is interested in supervising students studying the materials science of construction materials in areas such as:

Lime and cementitious binders
Nanomaterials
Photocatylictic materials
Sensors
Indoor air quality
Waste utilisation in construction

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Projects 2010 2023

6 Active
12 Finished

IDEA-Mat: Innovative Design and Engineering of Advanced Materials (IDEA-Mat)

Sharma, B., Walker, P., Ball, R., Holley, J. & Paine, K.

1/02/19 → 31/01/21

Project: Other

Healthy Housing for the Displaced

Coley, D., Adeyeye, K., Ball, R., Copping, A., Holley, J., Natarajan, S. & Orr, J.

1/05/17 → 30/04/20

Project: Research council

RM4L - Resilient Materials for Life

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

3/04/17 → 2/04/22

Project: Research council

Moisture Movement Beneath Solid Ground Floors in Historic Buildings

Briggs, K. & Ball, R.

1/11/16 → 1/10/20

Project: UK charity

Autonomous Aerial Robotic Manufacturing

Ball, R., Shepherd, P. & Williams, C.

1/05/16 → 30/04/20

Project: Research council

Robotics

Antennas

Robots

Printing

Hardware

Research Output 1998 2019

82 Article
37 Paper
13 Conference contribution
3 Chapter
4 More

Application of Alkali-Activated Palm Oil Fuel Ash Reinforced with Glass Fibers in Soil Stabilization

Abdeldjouad, L., Asadi, A., Ball, R., Nahazanan, H. & Huat, B., 1 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Soils and Foundations. 35 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Comparing the moisture permeability of limecrete and concrete floor slabs

Phillips, G., Briggs, K., McCaig, I. & Ball, R., 2019, 5th Historic Mortars Conference . Álvarez, J. I., Fernández, J. M., Navarro, Í., Durán, A. & Sirera, R. (eds.). RILEM, p. 1267-1278 12 p.

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

Open Access

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Effectiveness of Nanolime as a Stone Consolidant: A 4-Year Study of Six Common UK Limestones

Tzavellos, S., Pesce, G., Wu, Y., Henry, A., Robson, S. & Ball, R., 14 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Materials.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Laboratory characterization of brick walls rendered with a pervious lime-cement mortar

Palomar, I., Barluenga, G., Ball, R. & Lawrence, R., 31 May 2019, In : Journal of Building Engineering. 23, p. 241-249 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Olivine as a reactive aggregate in lime mortars

Westgate, P., Ball, R. & Paine, K., 20 Jan 2019, In : Construction and Building Materials. 195, p. 115-126 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Datasets

Data set for Carbonation of Hydrous Materials at the Molecular Level: a ToF-SIMS, Raman and DFT Study

Grant, R. (Creator), Pesce, G. (Creator), Parker, S. (Creator), Molinari, M. (Creator), Ball, R. (Creator), University of Bath, 2 Feb 2017

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00240

Dataset

Dataset for Optimization of Drilling Resistance Measurement (DRM) user-controlled variables

Dumitrescu, T. (Creator), Pesce, G. (Creator), Ball, R. (Creator), University of Bath, 17 Nov 2017

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00443

Dataset

An experimental and computational study to resolve the composition of dolomitic lime.

Grant, R. (Creator), Pesce, G. (Creator), Ball, R. (Creator), Parker, S. (Creator), University of Bath, 18 Jan 2016

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00170

Dataset

Dataset related to the paper "Environmental performance of nano-structured Ca(OH)2/TiO2 photocatalytic coatings for buildings"

Pesce, G. (Creator), Nuño, M. (Creator), Ball, R. (Creator), Xenophontos, P. (Creator), University of Bath, 2015

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00097

Dataset