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Prediction of autogenous shrinkage of cement pastes as poro-visco-elastic deformation

Karen Scrivener, Zhangli Hu, Pietro Lura

Precise and robust predictions of autogenous shrinkage of high performance concrete are essential to limit self-induced stresses and cracking in modern concrete structures. This paper presents predictions of autogenous shrinkage for three cement pastes of ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Impact of Embodied Energy on materials/buildings with partial replacement of ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) by natural Pozzolanic Volcanic Ash

Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

This work studies the effect on Embodied Energy (EE) of concrete when Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is partially substituted with natural Pozzolanic Volcanic Ash (VA) at the material and the building scale. The work aims to demonstrate potential improveme ...

2018

The Search for Affordable Cement and Concrete in the 18th and 19th Century

Salvatore Aprea

At the turn of the 19th century, the production and use of concrete were limited by the unavailability of raw materials to produce good cement in several places. From that time onwards, the progress of chemistry and a number of empirical discoveries opened ...

Springer2017

The Search for Affordable Cement and Concrete in the 18th and 19th Century

Salvatore Aprea

The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...

2017

Autogenous shrinkage is the unrestrained volume change of cementitious materials occurring at con-stant temperature without any change in mass. It occurs as a consequence of self-desiccation (de-crease of internal relative humidity) and increasing capillar ...

EPFL2017

This book describes for the first time ever, the rise of the modern art of building with concrete in the different German territories stretching from Friesland to Pomerania and southwards from Bavaria to Baden during the first three quarters of the 19th ce ...

EPFL Press2016

The resumption of concrete use in modern times. Key episodes from archival sources and technical literature

Salvatore Aprea

The modern use of concrete developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the interest in archaeology, the observation of some vernacular building techniques and some construction-site practices that had survived locally from the times of ancien ...

2016

Preliminary Assessment Of Durability Of A Low Carbon Concrete Made With Limestone Calcined Clay Portland Cement

Through a collaborative research effort between the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne and CIDEM a new kind of cementitious binder has been developed based on the synergy between calcined clays and limestone. Industrial trials carried out in Cuba duri ...

Int Center Numerical Methods Engineering2016

German Concrete, 1819 - 1877

Salvatore Aprea

This dissertation originates from an investigation about the arising of the modern, German building expertise involving the use of concrete, which develops during the first three quarter of the 19th century against the backdrop of a general modernisation p ...

EPFL2015

The early German production and use of modern hydraulic binders: between English influences and the search for a scientific approach, 1817-1839

Salvatore Aprea

Construction History Society2014