Dr Bamdad Ayati
Senior Research Fellow
Sustainability Research Institute, Research Degree Leader ,
Bamdad Ayati is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute. He is a materials chemist with an interest in low-carbon building materials.
Areas Of Interest
- Sustainable bio-based building materials
- Life cycle assessment and embodied carbon
- Innovative use and re-use of renewable feedstocks and industrial by-products
- Low-carbon cementitious materials and microstructural characterisation
OVERVIEW
Dr Bamdad Ayati is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute with an interest in the development of low-carbon building materials for different construction applications. His work explores the opportunities for storing carbon in building components as an effective strategy to delay emissions and substitute common energy-intensive products.
Focusing on the utilisation of fast-growing plants and renewable feedstocks, his research combines materials engineering and life cycle assessment methods to develop building components with superior mechanical and hygrothermal properties but with low embodied carbon.
His work on waste sugarcane bio-composites (Sugarcrete TM) has been nominated for Earthshot Prize 2023. Currently, he is working on wetlands plants and paludiculture crops for the manufacture of natural fibre insulation products with innovative binder systems.
Bamdad's PhD and Post-doctoral research was on novel physical and chemical processing methods for producing highly reactive pozzolanic materials from various types of low-grade clays. This was in collaboration with major cement and waste management industries (Tarmac and Augean PLC). Currently, he is leading the delivery of consultancy projects at the SRI Materials Resource Management division. .
PUBLICATIONS
Journals
- Ayati, B., Gutierrez, A. and Chandler, A., 2024. Mechanical and hygrothermal properties of hemp-silica bio-composites. Construction and Building Materials, 425, p.136077.
- Abbas, A., Mahadevan, M., Prajapati, S., Ayati, B. and Kanavaris, F., 2023, June. Development of Low-Carbon Lightweight Concrete Using Pumice as Aggregate and Cement Replacement. In International RILEM Conference on Synergising expertise towards sustainability and robustness of CBMs and concrete structures (pp. 280-290). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Devereux, R., Ayati, B., Westhead, E.K., Jayaratne, R. and Newport, D., 2023. “The great source” microplastic abundance and characteristics along the river Thames. Marine pollution bulletin, 191, p.114965.
- Devereux, R., Ayati, B., Westhead, E.K., Jayaratne, R. and Newport, D., 2023. Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on microplastic abundance along the River Thames. Marine pollution bulletin, 189, p.114763.
- Ayati, B., Newport, D., Wong, H. and Cheeseman, C., 2022. Acid activated smectite clay as pozzolanic supplementary cementitious material. Cement and Concrete Research, 162, p.106969.
- Ayati, B., Newport, D., Wong, H. and Cheeseman, C., 2022. Low-carbon cements: potential for low-grade calcined clays to form supplementary cementitious materials. Cleaner Materials, p.100099.
- Ayati, B., Molineux, C., Newport, D. and Cheeseman, C. 2019. Manufacture and performance of lightweight aggregate from waste drill cuttings. Journal of Cleaner Production, 208, pp.252-260.
- Ayati, B., Ferrándiz-Mas, V., Newport, D. and Cheeseman, C. 2018. Use of clay in the manufacture of lightweight aggregate. Construction and Building Materials, 162, pp.124-131.
- Molineux, C. J., Newport, D. J., Ayati, B., Wang, C., Connop, S. P., & Green, J. E. (2016) Bauxite residue (red mud) as a pulverised fuel ash substitute in the manufacture of lightweight aggregate. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, Part 1, 401-408.
- Ayati, B., Newport, D. J. (2016) Production of clay coated lightweight fill materials from air pollution control residues (APCr). Presented at International SEEDS Conference 2016. Leeds Beckett University.