Mechanics and physics of creep, shrinkage, and durability of concrete : a tribute to Zdeněk P. Bažant : proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability Mechanics (CONCREEP-9), September 22-25, 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts / / sponsored by IA-CONCREEP, Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, American Concrete Institute, Concrete Sustainability Hub at MIT, Groupement de recherche international "multi-scale materials, under the nanoscope" of CNRS ; edited by Franz-Josef Ulm, Hamlin M. Jennings, Roland Pellenq

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464954203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Reston, Virginia : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-7844-7796-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (515 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BažantZ. P; UlmF.-J (Franz-Josef); JenningsHamlin; PellenqRoland
• Disciplina: 624.1/834
• Soggetti: Concrete - Creep; Concrete - Expansion and contraction; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Keynote Lectures""; ""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""; ""Molecular and Meso-Scale Simulations and Characterization""; ""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""; ""Micromechanics of Creep and Shrinkage""; ""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""