FluidControl: modifying the pore network and fluid flow to improve the durability of sedimentary rocks against salt damage

3D multi-scale structural characterization of new lime mortars and their long-term performance related to efflorescence.

Doctoral project Aurélie Isebaert

Doctoral project Daphne Guilbert

Doctoral project Delphine Vandevoorde

Doctoral project Géraldine Fiers

Doctoral project Jeroen Van Stappen

Doctoral project Jolien Delepierre

Doctoral project Maxim Deprez

Doctoral project Nektaria Panou

Doctoral project Redouane Meftah

Doctoral project Tim De Kock

Doctoral project Timo Seemann

Doctoral project Tom Bultreys

Exploration of X-ray dark-field tomography for the characterization of mineral building materials

Improving the durability of sedimentary rocks by moficiations at the pore-scale.

Linking wettability to multiphase flow in rocks: a pore-scale investigation using 4D X-ray microtomography

Microbial alteration of natural building stones: mechanisms, identification and advances in visualization

Modifying the pore network and mineral surface properties to improve the durability of sedimentary rocks against salt damage.

Pore-scale imaging of solute and colloid transport

Processing and Characterization of Engineered Artificial Minerals

Salts in the Built Environment

Spectral X-ray computed micro tomography: potential and applications in geosciences

Stone conservation using micro-organisms

Towards an automated workflow to characterize the mineralogy of ore samples in 3D

Visualising fluid transport efficiency in rough fractures: Towards predicting subsurface fracture flow

characterization of durable lightweight gypsum materials

Doctoral project Roald Hayen

Doctoral project Sibrecht Reniere

Doctoral project Thomas Vandorpe

Heat Air Moisture (HAM) modelling of rain infiltration and drying processes in masonry façade systems subjected to realistic rain loads

Tenacious traces. The impact of burning and patination on microwear traces on experimental and prehistoric stone tools from the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Scheldt valley

Towards efficient and detailed analysis of turbidite records for geo- and climate hazard reconstructions – An integrated approach combining X-ray CT, magnetic, grain-size and geochemical analysis

2D3DSCOPY 2022

3D characterization of complex pore-networks of carbonate rocks from sub-micron to centimeter scale

3D multi-scale structural characterization and long-term performance of lime-based mortars related to efflorescence

3D multi-scale structural characterization and long-term performance related to efflorescence

3D X-ray velocimetry to explain fluid flow dynamics inside porous materials

A new data-assisted modelling paradigm for flow in rocks at the pore scale

Applications of Micro-Tomography to roofing slate: durability, characterization and resoration of cultural heritage

BIOfilm management and CLEANing by leveraging fundamental understanding of biological, chemical and physical combined approaches - BIOCLEAN - CoFin BOF

BOF-ZAP professorship in earth sciences

Characterization of porous geomaterials in 2D and 3D

Electron and X-ray microscopy Community for structural and chemical Imaging Techniques for Earth materials

Energy storage in the geological subsurface: impact of salt precipitation in porous media

Enhanced X(cross)-disciplinary Community-driven Imaging Technologies for Earth and Environmental material research

FaCT: Fast Automated X-ray CT characterisation

Fluid flow simulations in multi-scale porous geo-materials

From pore to core: understanding multiphase flow in rocks from the µm- to the cm-scale using multi-scale X-ray imaging

From pore to core: understanding multiphase flow in rocks from the μm- to the cm-scale using multi-scale X-ray imaging

Geavanceerde klimaatsimulaties in labo-omgeving (ClimaLab): de impact van zon en regen op de duurzaamheid van materialen

Geological database of Flanders

Hygrothermal stress and freeze-thaw risk assessment in rocks exposed to changing climatic conditions

Identifying contrast agents for 3D imaging of biologically derived soils in porous organic substrates

Influence of fractures on fluid flow behavior inside porous geomaterials.

KISADAMA - Kinetic of Salt Cristallization and Mechanical Damage in Historic Masonry

Linking Database Subsoil Flanders and library of the Department of Geology and soil science at Ghent University pilot project based on digitizing archive Prof. Em. W. Breuck

Microbial colonisation of porous sedimentary rocks for their management of petrophysical properties.

MoCCHa-CT: Model-coupled 4D-uCT for advanced material characterisation

Multi-disciplinary 3D characterisation of complex pore-networks and minerals of geomaterials from sub-micron to centimeter scale

Multiscale characterization and modeling of crystallization processes in natural building stones

Negative emissions through enhanced mineral weathering in the coastal zone

New uses for X-ray Tomography in natural building stones: characterization, pathologies, and restoration of historical and recent roofing slates

Petrophysical and chemical alteration of porous materials

Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies

Probing salt crystallization dynamics in porous media by X-ray microtomography and micro-particle image velocimetry 

Project science popularization 'Planet Earth' no. PA / 2008/042 Do stones lead a own life?

Real time 3D monitoring and modelling of frost damage in concrete and sedimentary rocks

Resource Characterization: from 2D to 3D microscopy

Resource Characterization: from 2D to 3D microscopy

SBO SEPOCOM

SElf-healing CEmentitious and MINeral building materials

Spatial assessment of the pore-scale processes involved in ice crystallization in sedimentary rocks in relation to the pore structure and moisture content

Study on Weathering and Conservation of Sedimentary Rocks: Effects of Surface Modification on Salt Crystallization.

Sustainable Building Lime Applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches

Systems for controlling temperature and relative humidity

The development of a repair mortar for natural stone through evolutionary formulations: a first approach

The impact of re-injection of geothermal fluids on fluid flow properties and mechanical stability in fractured/faulted limestone reservoirs.

Tiny yet impactful? Unraveling the interactions between microplastics and sedimentary rocks.

Towards a more fundamental understanding of the freeze-thaw risk in rocks: integration of material parameters and the ambient environment

UGCT – Ghent University Centre for X-ray Tomography

VisioFlow: Advanced macro-model generation based on micro-scale visualization experiments of two-phase flow through porous sedimentary rocks

VLA15-2.1: follow link database Flanders base and library of the department of geology and soil science at Ghent University - continued VLA14-2.2 pilot project based on digitizing archive Prof. Em. W. Breuck

A grating interferometry add-on for high-resolution X-ray phase contrast and dark-field imaging at UGCT

Combined quantitative chemical and morphological imiaging in 3D at a nanoscopic level

Combined X-Ray Fluorescence and Absorption CT (XRF-CT) imager for non-destructive 3D elemental/structural analysis on the microscopic scale.

Conservation materials for stained glass windows (CONSTGLASS)

Definition of the formal stratigraphy of layers recognised in cored wells and penetration tests in order to draw regional maps for type areas on basis of geological and geotechnical properties

Definition of the formal stratigraphy of the layers recongnised in cored wells - Database Subsoil Flanders

Geological database of Flanders

Impact of Self-Healing Engineered materials on steel corrosion in reinforced Concrete

Microscopy as corner stone of the Earth Sciences: study of the building blocks of the Earth with reflected and transmitted light

Soil 3-D architecture and protection of soil organic matter: combining X-ray CT and biological approaches

The impact of the physical characteristics of flint and their weathering on the preservation of prehistoric use wear traces

UGCT – Ghent University Centre for X-ray Tomography

BOF-ZAP professorship in earth sciences

Integrated characterisation on a (sub)micron scale of petrophysical characteristics of natural stone and fluid transport through natural stone by fusion of data obtained through non-destructive techniques