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Mechanics and physics of creep, shrinkage, and durability of concrete a tribute to Zdenek P. Bažant : proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability Mechanics (CONCREEP-9), September 22-25, 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Title:
Mechanics and physics of creep, shrinkage, and durability of concrete a tribute to Zdenek P. Bažant : proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability Mechanics (CONCREEP-9), September 22-25, 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Author:
International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability Mechanics (9th : 2013 : Cambridge, Mass.)
ISBN:
9780784477960
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 498 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
Progress in Creep and Shrinkage Prediction Engendered by Alarming Bridge Observations and Expansion of Laboratory Database -- Structure and Small Angle Scattering of Polydisperse Granular Porous Materials : A Fingerprint for Cement Paste -- Nanoscale Numerical Study of C-S-H Precipitation and Gelation -- The Counteracting Effects of Capillary Porosity and of Unhydrated Clinker Grains on the Macroscopic Strength of Hydrating Cement Paste A Multiscale Model -- Creep Properties of Cementitious Materials from Indentation Testing : Significance, Influence of Relative Humidity, and Analogy Between C-S-H and Soils -- A Depinning Model for Creep and Plasticity of Disordered Materials -- NANO-CREEP of Synthetic CSH Produced using 1.5 and 0.7 CAO/SIO2 Mixture Ratios -- Applying Tools from Glass Science to Study Calcium-Silicate-Hydrates -- Mechanical Behaviour of Ordered and Disordered Calcium Silicate Hydrates under Shear Strain Studied by Atomic Scale Simulations -- Hydrothermal and Mechanical Stability of Metal-Organic Frameworks -- NMR Investigations of Water Retention Mechanism by Cellulose Ethers in Cement-Based Materials.

Water Sorption Hysteresis in Cement Nano Slits -- Interpretation of Full Sorption-Desorption Isotherms as a Tool for Understanding Concrete Pore Structure -- Multi-scale Hydric Transport in Hardened Cement Pastes and Reference Porous Silicate Materials -- Water Isotherms, Shrinkage and Creep of Cement Paste : Hypotheses, Models and Experiments -- Diffusion Properties of Sodium and Lithium Silicates through Cement Pastes and its Mitigating Effect on Alkali-silica Reaction -- New Experimental Approach to Study Creep and Shrinkage Mechanisms of Concrete on the Nano-scale Level -- Infinitesimal Shrinkage as Determined by Inverse Analysis Based on Drying and Shrinkage Tests -- Kinetic Simulation of the Logarithmic Creep of Cement -- Recent Developments in Durability Mesomechanics of Concrete, Including Cracking via Interface Elements -- Finite Element Based Characterization of the Creep Properties of the Cement Paste Phases by Coupling Nanoindentation Technique and SEM-EDS -- In-situ Chemo-Mechanical Characterization of Cementitious Microstructures with Coupled X-Ray Microanalysis and Indentation Technique -- Efficient Homogenization of Ageing Creep of Random Media : Application to Solidifying Cementitious Materials.

Multi-scales Characterization of the Early-age Creep of Concrete -- Coupled Damage and Multiscale Creep Model Applied to Cementitious Materials -- Micromechanical Model of Concrete Creep -- Experimental Analysis of Drying Shrinkage Cracking in Coating Mortars by Digital Image Correlation -- Numerical Analysis of Cracking Induced by Drying Shrinkage in Concrete using a Mesoscopic Approach : Influence of Aggregates Restraint and Skin Effect -- Delayed Strains of Cementitious Materials Impact of Heterogeneities and Creep on Cracking Induced by Drying -- Influence of the Initial Water Saturation of Aggregates on Concrete Shrinkage -- Freeze-Thaw Resistance of Fiber Reinforced Composites with Superhydrophobic Admixtures -- Experimental Study on Effect of Internal Cracking on Corrosion Rate of Reinforcement in Concrete -- Mechanical Properties of Deteriorated Hardened Cement Paste -- Microstructure Improvement of Cementitious Systems using Nanomaterials : A Key for Enhancing the Durability of Concrete -- The use of Superabsorbent Polymers to Mitigate Shrinkage of Concrete -- Measuring the Chemical Shrinkage of Alkali-Activated Slag Cements Using the Buoyancy Method -- An Apparatus for Dissecting Volumetric Changes in Hydrating Cement Paste.

Effectiveness of Various Superabsorbent Polymers (SAP) in Mitigating Autogenous Shrinkage of Cement-based Materials -- Macrocrack Propagation in a Concrete Specimen Subjected to a Sustained Loading : Influence of Tensile Creep -- Experimental Research and Numerical Simulation of Post-Crack Creep Behavior of SFRC Loaded in Tension -- Analysis of Concrete Creep in Compression, Tension and Bending : Numerical Modeling -- Improvement of Crack Resistance of Slag Concrete by Utilizing High Alite Cement -- Experimental Determination of Early Age Fracture Toughness and Fracture Process Zone Size in Cement Pastes -- The Significance of Nanosilica on Degradation of Oil Well Cement in Carbonated Brine Environments -- Optimization of Anti-creep Admixtures for Plasterboards -- Role of Recycled Concrete Aggregates on the Long-Term Behavior of Structural Concrete -- Effects of Poly Vinyl Alcohol Fibers in Fracture Energy of Concrete -- Desiccation Shrinkage of Large Structures : Is there a Size Effect? -- Development of Comprehensive Platform for the Estimation of Volume Change and Damage in Cementitious Material -- Simulation of Time-dependent Tensile Behavior of Concrete under Various Loading and Drying Path.

The B4 Model for Multi-decade Creep and Shrinkage Prediction -- Improved Estimation of Long-Term Relaxation Function of Aging Concrete from Its Compliance Function -- Overall Stiffness Reduction of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Beams Due to Long Term Effects -- An Effective Flexural Stiffness Equation for Long-Term Deflection of Prestressed Concrete with and without Cracks -- Viscoplastic Constitutive Relation for Relaxation of Prestressing Steel at Varying Strain and Temperature -- Material Law on the Time-dependent Stress-strain Behavior of Young Concretes -- Inverse Estimation of Thermal Properties of Concrete During Hydrating Process -- Effect of Heat Elimination by Pipe Cooling System for Temperature Rise with Heat of Cement Hydration in Beam Using High Strength Engineered Cementitious Composites -- Development of FEM Thermal Analysis for Concrete Structures with Pipe Cooling System.
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