Publications by William Wilson

Towards a two-step assessment of the chloride ingress behaviour of new cementitious binders

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson

A wide range of systems were exposed to a seawater-like chloride concentration (0.5 M Cl−) for bulk diffusion experiments over 0.5, 1 and 4 years. Combined with previously published findings on chloride binding and mini-migration testing, the results showe ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Reconciliation of pore structure characterization methods: The simple case of PC-limestone cement pastes

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson, Shiyu Sui

Almost all properties of hydrated cementitious materials depend strongly on their pore structure. Many methods to quantify porosity have been applied to cementitious materials, but there is a huge confusion in the literature about the utility of these meth ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Unidirectional penetration approach for characterizing sulfate attack mechanisms on cement mortars and pastes

Karen Scrivener, Qiao Wang, William Wilson

Degradation of cementitious materials by sulfate ions is commonly classified into chemical and physical sulfate attack. So-called "physical" attack dominates in many field situations, but laboratory testing focuses on "chemical" attack under full-immersion ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Insights on chemical and physical chloride binding in blended cement pastes

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson, Julien Nicolas Gonthier

This study investigates chloride binding in blended cement pastes exposed to 0.5 M NaCl solutions (with and without pH adjustment) using X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy image analysis (edxia). The aim is to better understand the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Simple automation of SEM-EDS spectral maps analysis with Python and the edxia framework

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson

In a recent article, we described the edxia framework, a user-friendly framework to analyse the microstructure of cementitious materials using SEM-EDS hypermaps. The manual approach presented was shown to be efficient to answer the relevant scientific ques ...

WILEY2022

Unravelling chloride transport/microstructure relationships for blended-cement pastes with the mini-migration method

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson

A chloride mini-migration method is proposed to estimate effective diffusion coefficients at the scale of the cement paste and to investigate mechanisms with complementary microstructure analyses on the same material. Blended-cement pastes with a wide rang ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

edxia: Microstructure characterisation from quantified SEM-EDS hypermaps

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson

The characterisation of cement paste microstructure is an important step towards understanding durability mechanisms in cementitious materials. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) is a widely used technique ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Quantification methods for chloride binding in Portland cement and limestone systems

Karen Scrivener, Wei Sun, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson, Hamed Maraghechi, Shiyu Sui

This paper presents a comparison of methods to quantify the chloride binding capacity for cementitious materials composed of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) and Limestone (LS, 0 to 55% replacement). Physical and chemical chloride bindings were investigated ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Micro-chemo-mechanical features of ultra-high performance glass concrete (UHPGC)

William Wilson, Luca Sorelli

The development of Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) opened new research directions for enhancing the architectural design, sustainability and serviceability of concrete structures. However, the costs and resource intensiveness trigger the need for in ...

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