Branko Šavija

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  • Professor (Associate) at Delft University of Technology

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Delft University of Technology
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September 2010 - September 2014
Delft University of Technology
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Publications (240)
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This study develops a novel class of 3D-printed auxetic lattice reinforced foamed cementitious composites, aimed at overcoming the brittleness and low strength of conventional foamed cement while maintaining lightweight characteristic. Polymeric auxetic lattices (mechanical metamaterials with negative Poisson’s ratio) were 3D printed and embedded i...
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Cementitious materials are limited by its brittle nature, leading to the adoption of steel bars or fibers as reinforcement to improve ductility. With advances in additive manufacturing, 3D- printed lattice structures have emerged as a promising alternative for reinforcing cementitious composites, enabling enhanced mechanical properties This study e...
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The use of 3D printed polymers in the form of lattice reinforcement can enhance the mechanical properties of cementitious composites. Methods like Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) 3D printing enable their creation, but this process has a large (negative) effect on their mechanical properties, with a large dependency on the printing direction. Conti...
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Micromechanical and time dependent properties of cement paste can be predicted based on the microstructure by using analytical or numerical models. Herein, we propose an alternative approach for predicting the creep modulus of cement paste based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). The DCNN is trained using numerical simulation data obtaine...
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Auxetic cementitious cellular composites (ACCCs) possess advantageous mechanical properties in static tests, such as high fracture resistance and efficient energy dissipation. However, little attention has been given to understanding the impact resistance of ACCCs. In this study, two typical elliptical-shaped ACCC specimens, P25 and P50, were desig...
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Auxetic cementitious cellular composites (ACCCs) exhibit hinge-type recoverable deformation during auxetic behavior phase, a rare pseudo-elastic property in cementitious materials. However, their low load-bearing capacity during this phase restricts their use in high-load applications. This study developed ACCCs using strain-hardening cementitious...
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The use of 3D printed polymers in the form of lattice reinforcement can enhance the mechanical properties of cementitious composites. Methods like Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) 3D printing enable their creation, but this process has a large (negative) effect on their mechanical properties, with a large dependency on the printing direction. Conti...
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The microstructure of cement paste determines the overall performance of concrete and therefore obtaining the microstructure is an essential step in concrete studies. Traditional methods to obtain the microstructure, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray computed tomography (XCT), are time-consuming and expensive. Herein we propose u...
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When serving in the marine environment, reinforced concrete structures are prone to be attacked by chloride ingress, which generally co-occurs with varying humidity and temperature changes. Therefore, considering the interaction between moisture transport and heat transfer, and their individual and coupling effects on chloride transport, this paper...
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Herein, a three-dimensional numerical model based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for fresh concrete is developed to predict the slump and slump flow. Fresh concrete is considered as a non-Newtonian fluid, and its rheological behaviour is characterised by the Bingham and Herschel-Bulkley (H-B) models, respectively. Experiments are also conduc...
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A compounded system of fly ash (FA) and carbide slag (CS) was proposed for CO2 mineralization using the aqueous approach to prepare supplementary cementitious material. Influence of CS dosage on the morphology, particle size distribution, and chemical phases of the carbonation products were characterized. It is found that the mineralization product...
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This review provides a comprehensive analysis of the fatigue behaviour of cementitious materials, focusing on the characterisation, modelling, and mechanisms underlying their fatigue properties. It begins with a detailed exploration of how material composition and loading conditions influence fatigue performance, along with the underlying mechanism...
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Cenospheres are low-density and hollow microspheres derived from coal-fired power plant fly ash waste. This study aims to prepare ultra-light-weight (<1000 kg/m3 wet density) concrete using fly ash cenospheres (FAC). To begin with, FAC’s shell thickness and the water absorption and desorption were characterized. A mixing procedure was designed to a...
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The production of low-emission additive manufactured cementitious composites using functionalized rock powders offers promising mechanical properties and significantly reduces cement consumption. The effect of powder functionalization on the rheological properties of the mixture remains unclear, so this study investigated how mechanical and chemica...
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This study investigates the mechanical properties of cementitious composites with 3D-printed auxetic lattices, featuring negative Poisson’s ratios (auxetic behavior) in multiple directions. These lattices were fabricated using vat photopolymerization 3D printing, and three base materials with varying stiffness and deformation capacities were analyz...
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Temperature Stress Testing Machine (TSTM) is a universal testing tool for many properties relevant to early-age cracking of cementitious materials. However, the complexity of TSTMs require heavy lab work and thus hinders a more thorough parametric study on a range of cementitious materials. This study presents the development and validation of a Mi...
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3D printed polymeric reinforcement has been found able to improve the ductility of cementitious materials. However, due to the hydrophobic nature of commonly used 3D printing polymers, the bonding strength between the 3D printed polymers and cementitious matrix is extremely weak, which potentially hinders the mechanical performance of the reinforce...
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Engineered cementitious composite (ECC) is widely employed in engineering due to its high toughness and ductility. The Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ) between the fibers and the matrix plays a vital role in influencing the strength and durability of ECC. This study introduces a numerical method to simulate fiber pull-out behaviors, specifically t...
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Polyvinyl alcohol fiber reinforced engineered cementitious composite (ECC) using piezoelectric polymer film has attracted significant interest due to its energy harvesting potential. This work provides a theoretical model for evaluating the energy harvesting of bendable ECC using surface-mounted polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). In the mechanical par...
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One particularly interesting class of mechanical metamaterials are those having a negative Poisson’s ratio, which are referred to as ‘auxetics’. Because of their geometrical complexity, auxetic designs cannot always be easily created. However, Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods like material extrusion in 3D printing present the opportunity to cons...
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A novel highly compressible auxetic cementitious composite (ACC) is developed in this work. Contrary to conventional cementitious materials, such as plain concrete and fiber reinforced concrete, the ACC shows strain-hardening behavior under uniaxial compression: the stress continuously increases with strain up to approximately 40% strain. On one ha...
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This study investigates the size effect on the compressive strength of foamed concrete at the mesoscale level combining X-ray computed tomography (X-CT) and a discrete lattice model. Image segmentation techniques and X-CT were employed to obtain virtual specimens comprising hydrated cement paste and air voids. The lineal-path function and pore size...
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This paper presents a state-of-the-art review on the application of additive manufacturing (AM) in self-healing cementitious materials. AM has been utilized in self-healing cementitious materials in three ways: (1) concrete with 3D-printed capsules/vasculatures; (2) 3D concrete printing (3DCP) with fibers or supplementary cementitious materials (SC...
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Auxetic cementitious cellular composites (ACCCs) exhibit desirable mechanical properties (e.g., high fracture resistance and energy dissipation), due to their unique deformation characteristics. In this study, a new type of cementitious auxetic material, referred to as peanut shaped ACCC, has been designed and subsequently architected using additiv...
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In the race to achieve global climate neutrality, carbon intensive industries like the clinker and cement industry are required to decarbonize rapidly. The environmental impacts related to potential transition pathways to low- carbon systems can be evaluated using prospective life cycle assessment (pLCA). This study conducts a pLCA for future globa...
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Self-healing concrete using encapsulated healing agent has shown great potential in enhancing concrete durability. However, the capsules are expensive to make and can lower the mechanical properties of concrete. In this study, a new type of manufactured aggregate that employs waste-derived fly ash cenosphere as a carrier of healing agent (SH-CS) wa...
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Early-age cracking risk induced by autogenous deformation is high for cementitious materials of low water-binder ratios. The autogenous deformation, viscoelastic properties, and stress evolution are three important factors for understanding and quantifying the early-age cracking risk. This paper systematically reviewed the experimental and modellin...
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This study presents comprehensive numerical modeling methods for simulating early‐age stress (EAS) relaxation in cementitious materials, based on the autogenous deformation (AD), elastic modulus, creep, and stress continuously tested by a mini temperature stress testing machine (Mini‐TSTM) and a mini AD testing machine from a very early age (i.e.,...
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Crystalline admixture (CA) is an effective self-healing agent for mortar. However, the effects of crack parameters (i.e. crack width and cracking age) and the service environment on the self-healing behavior of CA-containing mortar are not well understood. Herein, the self-healing behavior of mortar containing a self-developed CA was assessed by te...
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High-strength engineered cementitious composites (ECC) typically require higher cement content, which is negative from the sustainability point of view. To alleviate this problem, herein a low-cost and eco-friendly high-strength ECC (with a compressive strength of over 100 MPa) was developed, and diatomite was used to replace a small amount of ceme...
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This paper investigates the influence of temperature on autogenous deformation and early-age stress (EAS)evolution in ordinary Portland cement paste using a recently developed Mini Temperature Stress Testing Ma-chine (Mini-TSTM) and Mini Autogenous Deformation Testing Machine (Mini-ADTM). In the Mini-TSTM/ ADTM,CEM I 42.5 N paste with a water-cemen...
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Vascular self-healing concrete (SHC) has great potential to mitigate the environmental impact of the construction industry by increasing the durability of structures. Designing concrete with high initial mechanical properties by searching a specific arrangement of vascular structure is of great importance. Herein, an automatic optimization method i...
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Auxetic cementitious composites (ACCs) with improved mechanical properties are created, by casting 3D printed polymeric auxetic reinforcement structures inside cementitious mortar. Four types of ACCs incorporating reinforcement with different auxetic mechanisms were prepared: “re-entrant” (RE), “rotating-square” (RS), “chiral” (CR) and “missing-rib...
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This contribution presents an experimental investigation and a numerical model of fatigue damage development in hardened cement paste at the micro-meter length scale. For the very first time, an experimental approach for measuring flexural fatigue of hardened cement paste specimens at the microscale has been developed. Microscopic cantilever specim...
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Due to its large number of advantages compared to traditional subtractive manufacturing techniques, additive manufacturing (AM) has gained increasing attention and popularity. Among the most common AM techniques is fused filament fabrication (FFF), usually referred to by its trademarked name: fused deposition modeling (FDM). This is the most effici...
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With the introduction of 3D concrete printing, research started on how to include reinforcement in 3D printed structures. Initial studies on the implementation of strain hardening cementitious composites (SHCC) as self-reinforcing printable mortars have shown promising results. The development of this new type of SHCC comes with additional challeng...
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A composite can have properties much better than the components it is made of. This work proposes a three-dimensional auxetic cementitious-polymeric composite structure (3D-ACPC) which incorporates 3D printed polymeric shell with cementitious mortar. Uniaxial compression experiments are performed on the 3D-ACPC to study their quasi-static stress-st...
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Concrete is characterized in terms of its engineering properties, mainly strength and stiffness, which are subsequently used in structural design. However, the apparent (i.e., measured) concrete properties are not intrinsic but dependent on the conditions under which the measurement is performed. Herein a combined experimental and numerical study i...
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This study investigated the evolution process of high-volume slag cement (HVSC) paste from a chemo-mechanical standpoint. HVSC specimens with a 70 w.t. % slag replacement rate were studied at various ages. Evolution of phase assemblage, microstructure development, and micromechanical properties were analyzed using TGA/XRD/MIP/SEM-EDS and nano-/micr...
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Herein, different kinds of methods for buildability quantification of 3D concrete printing are reviewed, including experimental approaches, analytical modelling, and numerical simulations. A brief introduction on printing process is first given. This discusses the material properties in different stages. Material printability, which encompasses pum...
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Several studies have shown the potential of strain-hardening cementitious composites (SHCC) as a self-reinforcing printable mortar. However, papers published on the development of three-dimensional printable SHCC (3DP-SHCC) often report a discrepancy between the mechanical properties of the cast and printed specimens. This paper evaluates the effec...
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We propose a new numerical method to analyze the early-age creep of 3D printed segments with the consid-eration of stress history. The integral creep strain evaluation formula is first expressed in a summation form usingsuperposition principle. The experimentally derived creep compliance surface is then employed to calculate thecreep strain in the...
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The high deformation capacity of auxetic cementitious cellular composites (ACCCs) makes them promising for strain-based energy harvesting applications in infrastructure. In this study, a novel piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) with ACCCs and surface-mounted PVDF film based on strain-induced piezoelectric mechanisms has been designed, fabricated,...
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Additively manufactured vascular networks have great potential for use in autonomous self-healing of cemen-titious composites as they potentially allow multiple healing events to take place. However, the existence of a vascular tube wall may impede with the healing efficiency if it does not rupture timely to release the healing agent. The issue of...
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The particle size distribution (PSD) has a significant influence on the fresh and final properties of cement and its derived products. In this paper, CSA cements with three different mean diameters (D50), ranging from 6.04 to 26.62μm were prepared by milling. The pre-hydration behavior was quantitatively analyzed, including the degree of pre-hydrat...
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An engineered cementitious composite (ECC) belongs to a type of high-performance fiber-reinforced materials. Fiber alignment causes the anisotropy of such materials. Herein, the influence of the fiber orientation on water and ion penetration into an ECC was studied. Fiber alignment was achieved using an extrusion approach. Water absorption, sorptiv...
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Compared with other self-healing mechanisms, embedding vascular networks in cementitious matrix enables repairing wider cracks and performing multiple healing cycles. For vascular-based self-healing cementitious composites, additive manufacturing (AM) allows fabricating vascular structures with complex geometry. For Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)...
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Self-healing concrete has shown excellent potential in improving the durability of (reinforced) concrete structures and reducing the need for their repair and maintenance. This has been further substantiated by several successful full-scale demonstrator projects. Nevertheless, industrial uptake of the technology is lagging behind, mainly due to the...
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This paper employs computer vision techniques to predict the micromechanical properties (i.e., elastic modulus and hardness) of cement paste based on an input of Backscattered Electron (BSE) images. A dataset comprising 40,000 nanoindentation tests and 40,000 BSE micrographs was built by express nanoindentation test and Scanning Electron Microscopy...
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In circumstances with wastewater and seawater, the behavior of multi-ions including calcium, chloride and others in concrete attracts attention. The present study investigated the multiple mechanisms that could happen under the special field situation above, including calcium leaching, chloride transport and multi-ion coupling. To realize the inter...
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This study aims to experimentally investigate the autogenous deformation and the stress evolution in restrained high-volume ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) concrete. The Temperature Stress Testing Machine (TSTM) and Autogenous Deformation Testing Machine (ADTM) were used to study the macro-scale autogenous deformation and stress evolut...
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Stress evolution of restrained concrete is directly related to early-age cracking (EAC) potential of concrete, which is a tricky problem that often happens in engineering practice. Due to the global objective of carbon reduction, Ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) concrete has become a more promising binder comparing with Ordinary Port-la...
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The study aims to investigate the mechanism of early-age cracks in different massive concrete structures (i.e. tunnels, bridge foundations and underground parking garages), with the objective of answering the following three specific questions: 1) How does the parameters of concrete proportion mix (e.g. w/c ratio, cementitious materials, aggregates...
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In this paper, optimization of vascular structure of self-healing concrete is performed with deep neural network (DNN). An input representation method is proposed to effectively represent the concrete beams with 6 round pores in the middle span as well as benefit the optimization process. To investigate the feasibility of using DNN for vascular str...
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The performance of engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) under coupled salt freezing and loaded conditions is important for its application on the transportation infrastructure. However, in most of the studies, the specimens were generally loaded prior to the freezing. The influence of sustained load was merely considered. To this end, four sus...
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This work presents a study of mechanical properties of foamed concrete at the meso-scale based on a combination of X-ray computed tomography (XCT) technique and a discrete lattice type fracture model. The microstructure of the foamed concrete with different densities was obtained by XCT technique and binarized as two-phase (pore/solid) materials. T...
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Generative networks are effective tools for digital materials (DM) inverse design. However, the optimization performance of generative networks is restricted by the increasing discrepancy between the optimized input and the prescribed input domain as the design loop increases. Herein, a correction technique is incorporated into generative deep neur...
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High-frequency vibration helps to improve the compactness of concrete, but also causes the settlement of coarse aggregates (CAs) and then affects the durability of hardened concrete. In this paper, a numerical study combining multi-phase CA settlement model and multi-component ionic transport model is performed to understand the influence of vibrat...
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Whilst the optical and structural properties of the glasses containing tantalum oxide have been considerably investigated, research into their mechanical properties is not substantially established. This work reports on the mechanical characterization of transparent germanate glass samples, obtained via the melt-quenching technique, with a molar co...
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The mechanical performance of engineered cementitious composite (ECC) depends greatly on fiber orientation and distribution. In this paper, the effect of fiber orientation on ECC's mechanical properties was investigated using two different casting methods: a flow-induced casting was used to enhance the fiber orientation within ECC mixture and compa...
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This paper explores buildability quantification of randomly meshed 3D printed concrete objects by considering structural failure by elastic buckling. The newly proposed model considers the most relevant printing parameters, including time-dependent material behaviors, printing velocity, localized damage and influence of sequential printing process....
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The resistance of cracked ECC against chloride ingress is mainly governed by the accumulated crack width of all the cracks rather than the maximum width of multiple cracks. However, most studies focus on the influence of a single fine crack (<100 μm), which is far smaller than the accumulated crack width. To this end, this study focuses on a relati...
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Bleeding is a common problem in concrete slabs, and may lead to serious damage. The goal of this article is to understand the impact of alternative binders and their properties on the bleeding of concrete. Therefore, the impact of the type of binder on the bleeding process is investigated. The results show that the addition of granite powder or fly...
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Engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) belong to a broad class of fibre-reinforced concrete. They incorporate synthetic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibres, cement, fly ash and fine aggregates, and are designed to have a tensile strain capacity typically beyond 3%. This paper presents an investigation on the carbonation behaviour of engineered cement...
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Early‐age stress (EAS) is an important index for evaluating the early‐age cracking risk of concrete. This paper encompasses a thermo‐chemo‐mechanical (TCM) model and active ensemble learning (AEL) for predicting the EAS evolution. The TCM model provides the data for the AEL model. First, based on Fourier's law, Arrhenius’ equation, and rate‐type cr...
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Conventionally, the properties of cementitious materials are tailored by a simple but efficient method: mixture proportion design. For a given cementitious mixture, the chemical and physical properties of cementitious materials have already been determined. Consequently, the mechanical performance of the hardened cementitious material is determined...
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Tailoring lattice structures is a commonly used method to develop lattice materials with desired mechanical properties. However, for cementitious lattice materials, besides the macroscopic lattice structure, the multi-phase microstructure of cement paste may have substantial impact on the mechanical responses. Therefore, this work proposes a multi-...
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Carbide residue activated blast furnace slag is a relatively new kind of eco-friendly construction materials. This work addresses the design of foamed lightweight concrete as road embankment material using such material. A statistical mixture design approach was adopted to assess the influence of each ingredient as well as the interaction between t...
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In this study, the flexural strength and fatigue properties of interfacial transition zone (ITZ) were experimentally investigated at the micrometre length scale. The hardened cement paste cantilevers (150 μm × 150 μm × 750 μm) attached to a quartzite aggregate surface were prepared and tested under the monotonic and cyclic load using a nanoindenter...
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This research studies the impact of localized damage and deformed printing geometry on the structural failure of plastic collapse for 3D concrete printing (3DCP) using the lattice model. Two different approaches are utilized for buildability quantification: the (previously developed) load-unload method, which updates and relaxes the printing system...
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The design of new insulating envelopes is a direct route towards energy efficient buildings. The combinations of novel materials, such as phase-change (PCM), and advanced manufacturing techniques, such as additive manufacturing, may harness important changes in the designing of building envelopes. In this work we propose a novel methodology for the...
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Microbiologically induced concrete corrosion (in wastewater pipes) occurs mainly because of the diffusion of aggressive solutions and in situ production of sulfuric acid by microorganisms. The prevention of concrete biocorrosion usually requires modification of the mix design or the application of corrosion-resistant coatings, which requires a fund...
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Extrusion-based 3D concrete printing (3DCP) results in deposited materials with complex microstructures that have high porosity and distinct anisotropy. Due to the material heterogeneity and rapid growth of cracks, fracture analysis in these air-void structures is often complex, resulting in a high computational cost. This study proposes a convolut...
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Previous research has shown that the material properties of a three-dimensional printed strain hardening cementitious composite (3DP-SHCC) can significantly vary, depending on the printing system with which it is produced. However, limited research has been performed on the reproducibility of hardened mechanical properties under identical printing...
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A good bond between the layers of 3D printed cementitious materials is a prerequisite for having high structural rigidity for the printed elements. However, the influence of printing process on an interlayer bond is still not well understood. This study investigates the influence of curing methods (i.e., air curing, plastic film covering, wet towel...
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Cracking is one of the main causes for deterioration of concrete structures. Self-healing concrete with 3D-printed vascular networks has excellent potential for autonomous self-healing. This approach is scarcely investigated: no studies have been devoted to the influence of printing parameters on the properties of vascular based self-healing concre...
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This paper presents a study on cracking characterization of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) under flexural cyclic load using digital image correlation (DIC) technique. Five stress levels, namely 0.65, 0.75, 0.8, 0.85 and 0.9 of the flexural strength, were applied. Strain map at the side surface was obtained by DIC and used to drive evoluti...
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Since the advent of three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP), several studies have shown the potential of strain hardening cementitious composites (SHCC) as a self-reinforcing printable mortar. However, only a few papers focus on achieving sufficient buildability when developing printable SHCC. This study investigates the role of the particle siz...
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Stress evolution of restrained concrete is a significant direct index in early-age cracking (EAC) analysis of concrete. This study presents experiments and numerical modelling of the early-age stress evolution of Ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) concrete, considering the development of autogenous deformation and creep. Temperature Stres...
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This study aims to provide an efficient alternative for predicting creep modulus of cement paste based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). First, a microscale lattice model for short-term creep is adopted to build a database that contains 18,920 samples. Then, 3 DCNNs with different consecutive convolutional layers are built to learn from...

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