Publications by Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia

Effect of a novel starch-based temperature rise inhibitor on cement hydration and microstructure development: The second peak study

Karen Scrivener, Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia, Yu Yan

Temperature rise inhibitor (TRI) modifies the exothermic process of cement hydration at early age and mitigates the buildup of cumulative heat, which sheds new light on solving the thermal cracking issue. After the main hydration peak, a broader "second pe ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Effect of a novel starch-based temperature rise inhibitor on cement hydration and microstructure development

Karen Scrivener, Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia, Cheng Yu, Yu Yan

This study investigates the mechanism by which a novel starch-based admixture named Temperature Rise Inhibitor (TRI) modifying cement hydration and limiting heat evolution. This admixture is designed to avoid thermal cracking of concrete. Depending on the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Modeling the kinetics of the main peak and later age of alite hydration

Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia

The aim of this thesis is to understand the mechanisms underlying the main hydration peak and later ages of alite hydration; it proposes new mechanistic models for these two stages. Alite is the main constituent of Portland Cement (PC), and is responsible ...

EPFL2019

The needle model: A new model for the main hydration peak of alite

Karen Scrivener, Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia

This article presents a new model for the main hydration peaks of tricalcium silicate and alite on the assumption that C-S-H nucleates and grows as needles. The model relies only on directly observable quantities and reproduces the transition from the acce ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Advances in understanding cement hydration mechanisms

Karen Scrivener, Patrick Juilland, Aslam Kunhi Mohamed, Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia

Progress in understanding hydration mechanisms of alite and Portland cement is reviewed. Up to the end of the induction period, dissolution rates determined by the undersaturation of the solution dominate the reaction, but, better understanding is needed a ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Laboratory synthesis of C3S on the kilogram scale

Karen Scrivener, Xuerun Li, Alexandre Reda Constantin William Caleb Ouzia

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018