Last name

Bernal Lopez

Gender

Female

First name

Susan A.

Title

Professor

Date of birth

Tel.

Country

E-mail

S.A.BernalLopez@leeds.ac.uk

Organization

University of Leeds

Address

School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

Brief Curriculum Vitae

I hold the Chair in Structural Materials and a prestigious EPSRC Early Career Fellowship (ECF) in Multi-scale Engineering of Sustainable Concretes. My research centres on novel cements and concretes, particularly focusing on waste management and valorisation, multi-scale infrastructure materials characterisation, interaction between concrete and the environment, and improving sustainability of novel cement and concrete technologies. I am an active member of the UKCRIC National Centre for Infrastructure Materials and Bragg Centre for Materials Researcher housed at University of Leeds. I coordinate international efforts in my role as Deputy-Chair RILEM technical committee TC 281-CCC on carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials. I currently lead the largest team working on infrastructure materials at the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds.

Research interests related to the TC 281-CCC WG4

Effect of loading in the carbonation performance of concretes produced with natural SCMs

Relevant Publications

Bernal S.A. ‘The resistance of alkali-activated materials to carbonation’, Chapter 12 in F. Pacheco-Torgal, J. Labrincha, C. Leonelli, A. Palomo, & P. Chindaprasirt (Eds), Handbook of Alkali-Activated Cements, Mortars and Concretes. Cambridge, UK: Woodhead. 2014. pp. 319-330.

Ke X., Criado M., Provis J.L., Bernal S.A. Slag-based cements that resist damage by atmospheric carbonation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2018, 6 (4), 5067-5075.

Bernal S.A. Effect of the activator dose in the compressive strength and accelerated carbonation of alkali silicate-activated slag/metakaolin blended materials. Construction and Building Materials. 2015, 98, 217-226.

Bernal S.A., Provis J.L., Mejía de Gutiérrez R., van Deventer J.S.J. Accelerated carbonation testing of alkali-activated slag/metakaolin blended concretes: effect of exposure conditions. Materials and Structures. 2015, 48, 653-669.

Badar M.S., Kupwade-Patil K., Bernal S.A., Allouche E.N., Provis J.L. Corrosion of steel bars induced by accelerated carbonation in low and high calcium fly ash geopolymer concretes. Construction and Building Materials. 2014, 61, 79-89.

Bernal S.A., San Nicolas R., Provis J.L., Mejía de Gutiérrez R., van Deventer J.S.J. Natural carbonation of aged alkali-activated slag concretes. Materials and Structures. 2014, 47(4), 693-707.

Bernal S.A., San Nicolas R., Myers R.J., Mejía de Gutiérrez R., Puertas F., van Deventer J.S.J., Provis J.L. MgO content of slag controls phase evolution and structural changes induced by accelerated carbonation in alkali-activated binders. Cement and Concrete Research. 2014, 57, 33-43.

Bernal S.A., Provis J.L., Walkley B., San Nicolas R., Gehman J.D., Brice D.G., Kilcullen A.R., Duxson P., van Deventer J.S.J. Gel structure in alkali-activated binders based on slag and fly ash, and effects of accelerated carbonation. Cement and Concrete Research. 2013, 53, 127-144.

Bernal S.A., Provis J.L., Brice D.G., Kilcullen A., Duxson P., van Deventer J.S.J. Accelerated carbonation testing of alkali-activated binders significantly underestimates life service: The role of pore solution chemistry. Cement and Concrete Research. 2012, 42(10), 1317-1326.

Bernal S.A, Mejía de Gutiérrez R., Provis J.L., Rose V. Effect of silicate modulus and metakaolin incorporation on the carbonation of alkali silicate-activated slags. Cement and Concrete Research. 2010, 40(5), 898-907