Transport Properties and Concrete Quality

This title is based on the workshop on Transport Properties & Concrete Quality, held at the campus of Arizona State University on October 10-12, 2005. During this meeting, scientific aspects of the relevant relationships between materials, mechanisms, processes, and service life were discussed. * Provides a useful resource for understanding the most valuable aspects of cement-based materials, with topics ranging from the current state of practice, to theory, simulation, and testing and specifications. * Logically organized and carefully selected articles give insight into the need to better integrate aspects of materials science, mechanics, modeling, and testing in developing tools of understanding the durability in cement-based materials.

Barzin Mobasher is a professor at Arizona State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on understanding the interaction of materials science, mechanics of solids, and structural analysis and design. He is interested in constitutive modeling of materials, durability of cement based materials, composites, fracture mechanics, experimental stress analysis, steel structures, and biomechanics.

Jan P. Skalny studied chemical engineering at Slovak Technical University (STU) in Bratislava and at the University for Chemical Technology (VSCHT) in Prague, where he graduated in 1958. He received his PhD (chemical/ceramic engineering) at the University of Mining & Metallurgy in Krakow (1965). In 1967 he left for the United Kingdom and in 1968 he settled with his family in the United States. After a short stay at the Clarkson University in upstate New York (1968-69), he focussed his career on industrial research management. He became Associate Director of Martin Marietta Laboratories and construction materials research director for W. R. Grace & Co. After early retirement in 1991, he became a consultant and is presently President of Materials Service Life, a high-tech consulting company specializing in service life prediction of concrete-based infrastructure.

Dedication

ix

Preface

xi

Mechanisms

Ten Observations from Experiments to Quantify Water Movement and Porosity Percolation in Hydrating Cement Pastes

3

Dale P. Bentz

National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Alkali Silica Reactivity of Silica Fume Agglomerates

19

Maria C. Garci Juenger, Andrew J. Maas, and Jason H. Ideker

Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Dallas, TX

Mitigation of Alkali Silica Reaction: A Mechanical Approach

25

Claudia P. Ostertag

Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Experimental Studies and Parallel Computing on Coupled Moisture and Chloride Diffusion in Concrete

41

Yunping Xi, Ayman Ababneh, Lydia Abarr, A. Suwito, and Xiao-Chuan Cai

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, and Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY

Direct Phase-Resolved Strain Measurements in Cementitious Materials

57

J.J. Biernacki, S.E. Mikel, C.J. Parnham, R. Wang, J. Bai, T. Watkins, M.J. Lance and C. Hubbard

Tennessee Technological University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Modelling

Calcium Silicate Hydrate (C-S-H) Solid Solution Model Applied to Cement Degradation Using the Continuum Reactive Transport Model Flotran

73

J.W. Carey and P.C. Lichtner

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Chemo-Physical and Mechanical Approach to Performance Assessment of Structural Concrete and Soil Foundation

107

Koichi Maekawa, Kenichiro Nakarai, and Tetsuya Ishida

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo

Restraint and Cracking During Non-Uniform Drying of Cement Composites

123

John Bolander, Zhen Li, and Mien Yip

University of California, Davis, CA

A Simulation Model of the Packing Arrangements of Concrete Aggregates

141

Konstantin Sobolev and Adil Amirjanov

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas, NL, México, Department of Computer Engineering, Near East University, Nicosia, N. Cyprus

Modeling of Stiffness Degradation and Expansion in Cement Based Materials Subjected to External Sulfate Attack

157

B. Mobasher

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Testing

Measuring Permeability and Bulk Moduli Using the Dynamic Pressurization Technique

175

Z.C. Grasley, D.A. Lange, G.W. Scherer, and J.J. Valenza

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Using Monte Carlo Analysis to Quantify How the Number and Arrangement of Sensors Influence the Accuracy of an In Situ Sensing System

185

Tom Schmit and Jason Weiss

Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana

Role of In situ Testing and Monitoring in Assessing the Durability of Reinforced Concrete

199

P.A. Muhammed Basheer, Kenneth V. Grattan, Tong Sun, W. John McCarter, Adrian E. Long, Daniel McPolin, and Lulu Basheer

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; City University, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, London, UK; Heriot-Watt University, School of Built Environment, Edinburgh, UK

Influence of Production Method and Curing Conditions on Chloride Transport, Strength and Drying Shrinkage of Ternary Mix Concrete

215

Mateusz Radlinski, Jan Olek, Anthony Zander, and Tommy Nantung

Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering; Indiana Dept. of Transportation, Indianapolis, IN

Appendix A Workshop Program

231

Appendix B Workshop Sponsors

235

Author Index

237

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