Publications by Cyrille Dunant

Microstructural simulation and measurement of elastic modulus evolution of hydrating cement pastes

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant, Arnaud Charles Albert Muller, Arnaud Müller

Predicting the evolution of stiffness in cement paste requires linking morphological properties of the microstructure to the evolution of mechanical properties. Measures are typically difficult to obtain with sufficient time resolution to capture the trans ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Impact of temperature on expansive behavior of concrete with a highly reactive andesite due to the alkali-silica reaction

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant

The influence of temperature on the expansive behavior and microstructural damage of concrete due to the alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is studied experimentally by applying a new testing protocol, the Alkali-Wrapped Concrete Prism Test (AW-CPT). Early-stage ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Characterization of Fly Ashes by a Novel Method in the Scanning Electron Microscope

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant, Mohsen Ben Haha, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

In this paper, we show a new technique to characterize fly ashes using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Chemical composition of millions of points is measured by SEM-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and plotted in a ternary frequency plot. This new ...

ASTM INTERNATIONAL2019

Physically based models to study the alkali-silica reaction

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant

The Laboratory of Construction Materials in Lausanne has been studying the alkali-silica reaction for more than 10 years, advancing the understanding of the reaction, and also producing microstructural models which can be used to predict quantitatively the ...

Ice Publishing2016

Influence of visco-elasticity on the stress development induced by alkali-silica reaction

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant, Alain Benjamin Giorla

The alkali-silica reaction causes long-term degradation in the microstructure of affected concrete as well as macroscopic expansion. In this paper, a micro-mechanical model based upon an explicit representation of the microstructure has been used to simula ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

A new quantification method based on SEM-EDS to assess fly ash composition and study the reaction of its individual components in hydrating cement paste

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant, Mohsen Ben Haha, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

Calcareous fly ashes are high-potential reactive residues for blended cements, but their qualification and use in concrete are hindered by heterogeneity and variability. Current characterization often fails to identify the dominant, most reactive, amorphou ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Fly ash as an assemblage of model Ca-Mg-Na-aluminosilicate glasses

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings, Cyrille Dunant, Mohsen Ben Haha, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

Model Ca-Mg-Na-aluminosilicate glasses based on compositions found in a calcareous fly ash were synthesised and their reactivity assessed in NaOH solution and in Portland cement paste. It was found that the reactivity followed the same trend in both system ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Alkali-silica reaction: Current understanding of the reaction mechanisms and the knowledge gaps

Cyrille Dunant

Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is a major concrete durability problem, resulting in significant maintenance and reconstruction costs to concrete infrastructures all over the world. Despite decades of study, the underlying chemical and physical reaction mecha ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Finite elements in space and time for the analysis of generalised visco-elastic materials

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant, Alain Benjamin Giorla

Numerical analysis of linear visco-elastic materials requires robust and stable methods to integrate partial differential equations in both space and time. In this paper, symmetric space-time finite element operators are derived for the first time for elem ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

A critical comparison of several numerical methods for computing effective properties of highly heterogeneous materials

Cyrille Dunant, Alain Benjamin Giorla

Modelling transport and long-term creep in concrete materials is a difficult problem when the complexity of the microstructure is taken into account, because it is hard to predict instantaneous elastic responses. In this work, several numerical methods are ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013