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Book Simulating the Durability Mechanics of Cement Composites

Download or read book Simulating the Durability Mechanics of Cement Composites written by Zhen Li and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Numerical Simulation of the Durability Mechanics of Cement based Materials

Download or read book Numerical Simulation of the Durability Mechanics of Cement based Materials written by Stefano Berton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mechanics of Fiber and Textile Reinforced Cement Composites

Download or read book Mechanics of Fiber and Textile Reinforced Cement Composites written by Barzin Mobasher and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among all building materials, concrete is the most commonly used—and there is a staggering demand for it. However, as we strive to build taller structures with improved seismic resistance or durable pavement with an indefinite service life, we require materials with better performance than the conventional materials used today. Considering the enormous investment in public infrastructure and society’s need to sustain it, the need for new and innovative materials for the repair and rehabilitation of civil infrastructure becomes more evident. These improved properties may be defined in terms of carbon footprint, life-cycle cost, durability, corrosion resistance, strength, ductility, and stiffness. Addressing recent trends and future directions, Mechanics of Fiber and Textile Reinforced Cement Composites presents new opportunities for developing innovative and cost-effective materials and techniques in cement and concrete composites manufacturing, testing, and design. The book offers mathematical models, experimental results, and computational algorithms for efficient designs with fiber and textile reinforced composite systems. It explores alternative solutions using blended cements, innovative reinforcing systems, natural fibers, experimental characterization of key parameters used for design, and optimized designs. Each chapter begins with a detailed introduction, supplies a thorough overview of the existing literature, and sets forth the reasoning behind the experimentation and theory. Documenting the composite action of fibers and textiles, the book develops and explains methods for manufacturing and testing cement composites. Methods to design and analyze structures for reduced weight, increased durability, and minimization of cement use are also examined. The book demonstrates that using a higher volume fraction of fiber systems can result in composites that are quasi-elastic plastic. Speaking to the need to optimize structural performance and sustainability in construction, this comprehensive and cohesive reference requires readers to rethink the traditional design and manufacturing of reinforced concrete structures.

Book Durability of Concrete and Cement Composites

Download or read book Durability of Concrete and Cement Composites written by C. L. Page and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book PRO 30  4th International RILEM Workshop on High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites  HPFRCC 4

Download or read book PRO 30 4th International RILEM Workshop on High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites HPFRCC 4 written by Antoine E. Naaman and published by RILEM Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strain Hardening Cement Composites  Structural Design and Performance

Download or read book Strain Hardening Cement Composites Structural Design and Performance written by Toshiyuki Kanakubo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strain Hardening Cement Composites, SHCC hereafter, demonstrate excellent mechanical behavior showing tensile strain hardening and multiple fine cracks. This strain hardening behavior improves the durability of concrete structures employing SHCC and the multiple fine cracks enhance structural performance. Reliable tensile performance of SHCC enables us to design structures explicitly accounting for SHCC’s tensile properties. Reinforced SHCC elements (R/SHCC) indicate large energy absorbing performance under large seismic excitation. Against various types of loads, R/SHCC elements can be designed by superimposing re-bar performance and SHCC’s tensile performance. This report focuses on flexural design, shear design, FE modeling and anti-seismic design of R/SHCC elements as well as application examples. Establishing design methods for new materials usually leads to exploring application areas and this trend should be demonstrated by collecting actual application examples of SHCC in structures.

Book Durability Design of Concrete Structures

Download or read book Durability Design of Concrete Structures written by Kefei Li and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive coverage of durability of concrete at both material and structural levels, with design related issues Links two active fields in materials science and structural engineering: the durability processes of concrete materials and design methods of concrete structures Facilitates communication between the two communities, helping to implement life-cycle concepts into future design methods of concrete structures Presents state-of-the-art information on the deterioration mechanism and performance evolution of structural concrete under environmental actions and the design methods for durability of concrete structures Provides efficient support and practical tools for life-cycle oriented structural design which has been widely recognized as a new generation of design philosophy for engineering structures The author has long experience working with the topic and the materials presented have been part of the author's current teaching course of Durability and Assessment of Engineering Structures for graduate students at Tsinghua University The design methods and approaches for durability of concrete structures are developed from newly finished high level research projects and have been employed as recommended provisions in design code including Chinese Code and Eurocode 2

Book PRO 39  6th International RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concretes  FRC    BEFIB 2004  Volume 1

Download or read book PRO 39 6th International RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concretes FRC BEFIB 2004 Volume 1 written by Marco Di Prisco and published by RILEM Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mechanics and Physics of Creep  Shrinkage  and Durability of Concrete

Download or read book Mechanics and Physics of Creep Shrinkage and Durability of Concrete written by Franz-Josef Ulm and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brittle Matrix Composites

Download or read book Brittle Matrix Composites written by Huan He and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aggregate occupies at least three-quarters of the volume of concrete, so its impact on concrete’s properties is large. The sieve curve traditionally defines the aggregate size range. Another essential property is grain shape. Both, size and shape influence workability and the mechanical and durability properties of concrete. On the other hand, the shape of cement particles plays also an important role in the hydration process due to surface dissolution in the hardening process. Additionally, grain dispersion, shape and size govern the pore percolation process that is of crucial importance for concrete durability Discrete element modeling (DEM) is commonly employed for simulation of concrete structure. To be able doing so, the assessed grain shape should be implemented. The approaches for aggregate and cement structure simulation by a concurrent algorithm-based DEM system are discussed in this paper. Both aggregate and cement were experimentally analyzed by X-ray tomography method recently. The results provide a real experimental database, e.g. surface area versus volume distribution, for simulation of particles in concrete technology. Optimum solutions are obtained by different simplified shapes proposed for aggregate and cement, respectively. In this way, reliable concepts for aggregate structure and fresh cement paste can be simulated by a DEM system.

Book Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites

Download or read book Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites written by Fadhel Aouadi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creep  Shrinkage and Durability Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures  Two Volume Set

Download or read book Creep Shrinkage and Durability Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures Two Volume Set written by Tada-aki Tanabe and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CREEP, SHRINKAGE AND DURABILITY MECHANICS OF CONCRETE AND CONCRETE STRUCTURES contains the keynote lectures, technical reports and contributed papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures (CONCREEP8, Ise-shima, Japan, 30 September - 2 October 2008). The topics covered

Book Long Term Durability of Structural Materials

Download or read book Long Term Durability of Structural Materials written by P.J.M. Monteiro and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-08-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long Term Durability of Structural Materials" features proceedings of the workshop held at Berkeley, CA in October, 2000. It brought together engineers and scientists, who have received grants from the initiative NSF 98-42, to share their results on the study of long-term durability of materials and structures. The major objective was to develop new methods for accelerated short-term laboratory or in-situ tests which allow accurate, reliable, predictions of the long-term performance of materials, machines and structures. To achieve this goal it was important to understand the fundamental nature of the deterioration and damage processes in materials and to develop innovative ways to model the behavior of these processes as they affect the life and long-term performance of components, machines and structures. The researchers discussed their approach to include size effects in scaling up from laboratory specimens to actual structures. Accelerated testing and durability modeling techniques developed were validated by comparing their results with performance under actual operating conditions. The main mechanism of the deterioration discussed included environmental effects and/or exposure to loads, speeds and other operating conditions that are not fully anticipated in the original design. A broad range of deterioration damage, such as fatigue, overload, ultraviolet damage, corrosion, and wear was presented. A broad range of materials of interest was also discussed, including the full spectrum of construction materials, metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and coatings. Emphasis was placed on scale-dependence and history of fabrication on resulting mechanical behavior of materials.

Book Mechanics of Fiber and Textile Reinforced Cement Composites

Download or read book Mechanics of Fiber and Textile Reinforced Cement Composites written by Barzin Mobasher and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among all building materials, concrete is the most commonly used-and there is a staggering demand for it. However, as we strive to build taller structures with improved seismic resistance or durable pavement with an indefinite service life, we require materials with better performance than the conventional materials used today. Considering the enor

Book Durability of Strain Hardening Fibre Reinforced Cement Based Composites  SHCC

Download or read book Durability of Strain Hardening Fibre Reinforced Cement Based Composites SHCC written by G.P.A.G. Van Zijl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strain-Hardening Fibre-Reinforced Cement-Based Composites (SHCC) were named after their ability to resist increased tensile force after crack formation, over a significant tensile deformation range. The increased resistance is achieved through effective crack bridging by fibres, across multiple cracks of widths in the micro-range. Whether these small crack widths are maintained under sustained, cyclic or other load paths, and whether the crack width limitation translates into durability through retardation of ingress of moisture, gas and other deleterious matter, are scrutinized in this book by evaluation of test results from several laboratories internationally. The durability of SHCC under mechanical, chemical, thermal and combined actions is considered, both for the composite and the fibre types typically used in SHCC. The compilation of this state-of-the-art report has been an activity of the RILEM TC 208-HFC, Subcommittee 2: Durability, during the committee life 2005-2009.

Book Advances in Modeling Concrete Service Life

Download or read book Advances in Modeling Concrete Service Life written by Carmen Andrade and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a critical analysis is made on service life models related to reinforcement corrosion. The contributors are on the frontier of knowledge in the field of durability of reinforced concrete. Topics covered in the book include: causes and mechanisms of deterioration, transport mechanisms in concrete, numerical modeling of concrete behavior, durability modeling and prediction, reliability approach to structural design for durability, structural behavior following degradation of concrete structures, deterioration and repair of concrete structures, and corrosion measurement techniques.

Book A Framework for Durability Design with Strain Hardening Cement Based Composites  SHCC

Download or read book A Framework for Durability Design with Strain Hardening Cement Based Composites SHCC written by Gideon P.A.G. van Zijl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the state of the art of the durability of fibre-reinforced strain-hardening cement-based composites (SHCC) and the durability of structures or structural elements manufactured in full or in part with this class of modern construction materials. Highlights include: - Reflection on durability performance of existing applications in patch repair, a water reservoir and highway bridges. - Guidelines for tensile testing towards durability assessment of cracked SHCC. - New crack pattern related ingress rate indices for water and chloride into cracked SHCC. - The influence of low and high temperatures on SHCC durability performance. - The mechanism of crack control reducing ASR and corrosion rate, and results on chloride-induced corrosion of embedded steel reinforcement. - Self-healing of cracks in SHCC. - A conceptual durability design framework for SHCC and R/SHCC structures and members.