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The effect of substituting coarse aggregates with Corbicula shells on the mechanical and durability properties of concrete is evaluated by combining experimental investigations and micromechanical modeling. While substituting 20% of the aggregate volume with Corbicula shells does not affect slump, porosity, carbonation or chloride diffusion, a tota...
Large amounts of sediments are dredged each year to ensure navigation. These materials, classified as waste, seem to be promising alternatives to conventional construction materials. Dredging operations, carried out by the Territorial Directorate of the Seine Basin (DTBS), generate an annual volume of sediments of about 150,000 m3, of which nearly...
A micro-mechanical scheme has been coupled to a hydration model in [1] so as to investigate the instantaneous mechanical properties of a concrete. That scheme is extended to aging linear viscoelasticity so as to estimate the basic creep of concrete. The compliances of the hydrate phases are set according to existing nanoindentation tests. Then, agi...
Dredged river sediments may potentially be reused as aggregate in concrete production. The variability of dredged sediments has been quantified by measuring their concentrations of heavy metals, several distinct pollutants, specific granular fractions and organic content at various locations in the Seine River watershed over three years (2015–2017)...
Dielectric permittivity is a prevailing property used for the estimation of water content in heterogeneous materials like soils and concrete. Troubles are frequently encountered when searching for the relationship between a material's permittivity and its degree of saturation. Building an electromagnetic model of the material is thus of critical im...
Dredged river sediments may contain various types of organic matter that can affect the properties of a cement matrix, with the most representative part of such organic matter consisting of humic substances (HS). This work seeks to investigate the effects of humic substances on the rheology, the hydration and the strength development of a cement pa...
The aim of the present work is to evaluate the effect of nano-silica (NS) on the hydration, the rheology and the strength development of cement pastes. The advance of chemical reactions is monitored by mean of isothermal calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis: adding nano-silica particles speeds up the hydration of the cement paste but alter it...
The stiffness of foam concrete depends primarily on the added porosity. Nevertheless, by performing 3D elastic numerical simulations on artificial unit cells in the frame of periodic homogenization, it is shown that describing foam concrete as a porous material is not sufficient to explain the experimental measurements of the Young modulus for adde...
Abstract The hydration model of Parrot & Killoh (1984) has been extended to blended cements and coupled to a micromechanical scheme similar to that of Pichler & Hellmich (2011) to estimate the Young modulus and the compressive strength of cementitious materials as a function of time. A finite aspect ratio of 7 is introduced to describe the shape of...
In this work, the effective elastic properties of an heterogeneous medium with composite
inclusions are estimated in the framework of continuum micromechanics using schemes based
on the Eshelby problem. Due to the complexity of the inclusions, a finite element solution to
the latter problem has been exploited with adapted boundary conditions in ord...
The present paper focuses on the Eshelby inclusion problem which is revisited in the framework of ageing linear viscoelasticity. All known results established in linear viscoelasticity thanks to the correspondence principle are recovered as particular cases of a general solution extended to ageing. A closed form solution is presented for the Hill a...
A multi-scale homogenization scheme is proposed to estimate the time-dependent strains of fiber-reinforced concrete. This material is modeled as an aging linear viscoelastic composite material featuring ellipsoidal inclusions embedded in a viscoelastic cementitious matrix characterized by a time-dependent Poisson's ratio. To this end, the homogeniz...
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Prestress losses due to creep of concrete is a matter of interest for long term operations of containment buildings. In the present study, the time-dependent strains of concretes are estimated starting from morphological details of the microstructure. X-ray tomography provides a new way to spot such details and...
L'estimation des pertes de précontrainte liées aux déformations différées des bétons est un sujet d'intérêt pour la maintenance à long terme d'ouvrages de génie civil tels que les enceintes de confinement des centrales nucléaires. L'objectif de ce travail de doctorat est d'améliorer la prise en compte des particularités morphologiques de la microst...
Abstract Glass reinforced plastics based on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a material of choice for construction applications, such as pipes. The lifetime of pipes may be limited by creep failure and polymers exhibit a viscoelastic response that depends on the time of loading. In this paper, homogenization methods are designed to upscale the viscoelas...
An extension of the Mori-Tanaka and Ponte Castañeda-Willis homogenization schemes for linear elastic matrix-inclusion composites with ellipsoidal inclusions to aging linear viscoelastic composites is proposed. To do so, the method of Sanahuja (2013) dedicated to spherical inclusions is generalized to ellipsoidal inclusions under the assumption of t...
Prestress losses due to creep of concrete is a matter of interest for long-term operations of nuclear power plants containment buildings. Experimental studies by Granger (1995) have shown that concretes with similar formulations have different creep behaviors. The aim of this paper is to numerically investigate the effect of size distribution and s...
This paper addresses the relation between the grain size distribution, the elastic stress field fluctuations and the description of incipient plasticity in polycrystals with local elastic anisotropy. We propose a numerical approach based on full-field computations on polycrystalline microstructures. The generation of microstructures with prescribed...
