Drop weight impact strength of porous concretes investigated with a measurement technique using laser doppler velocimetry

Porous concrete is used in many applications that require permeability, noise absorption or thermal insulation. However, its response under dynamic loading is generally not considered. Porous concrete has a characteristic of forming multiple cracks and subsequently fracturing into small fragments when exposed to impact loading. Therefore, with...

Fracture analysis of cement treated demolition waste using a lattice model

Fracture properties of cement treated demolition waste were investigated using a lattice model. In practice the investigated material is applied as a cement treated road base/subbase course. The granular aggregates used in this material were crushed recycled concrete and masonry. This results in six different types of phases in the mixture:...

Lattice modeling of fracture processes in numerical concrete with irregular shape aggregates

The fracture processes in concrete can be simulated by lattice fracture model [1]. A lattice network is usually constructed on top of the material structure of concrete, and then the mechanical properties of lattice elements are assigned, corresponding with the phases they represent. The material structure of concrete can be obtained...

Relationship between cracking and electrical resistance in reinforced and unreinforced concrete

Characterization and modelling of self healing of bituminous materials towards durable asphalt pavement

The traffic volume and the number of heavy vehicles are growing enormously nowadays. There is a need for designing a durable asphalt pavement with innovative technologies. Pavement structures and materials with self healing and self repairing capability are believed to be very useful in such a system. This paper is aiming to understand the self...

Modelling chloride diffusion in cracked concrete: A lattice approach

In this paper, a 3D lattice model is proposed as a tool to simulate chloride diffusion in (cracked) cement based materials. The procedure consists of two (computationally independent) steps: simulating fracture with the fracture lattice model, previously developed, and simulating chloride diffusion process using the newly developed transport...

A tool for concrete performance assessment for ASR affected structures: An outlook

This paper outlines a project (namely PAT-ASR) which entails the development of a multi scale material performance assessment model on simulation of alkali silica reaction deployment and its effects on concrete durability. Performance models require a multi scale approach from micro (namely reaction chemistry) to macro level studies (namely...

Highway A58: The first engineered self healing asphalt road (abstract)

Asphalt mastic self healing (abstract)

Porous network concrete: A new approach to make concrete structures self-healing using prefabricated porous layer (abstract)

Self-healing in ECC stimulated by SAP under flexural cyclic load (abstract)

Encapsulated rejuvenators for asphalt (poster abstract)

Recent advances on self healing of concrete

In this paper an overview is given of new developments obtained in research on self healing of cracks in cement based materials and asphalt concrete. At Delft University various projects are running to study self healing mechanisms. The first project that is discussed is Bacterial Concrete, in which bacteria are mixed in concrete, that can...

Fibre-matrix interface properties in a wood fibre reinforced cement matrix

Wood fibres can be a low cost reinforcement for cementitious materials for structural applications. In order to design a ductile cementitious material reinforced with softwood fibres the fibrematrix interface properties are studied. Pullout tests have been carried out to determine the bond strength and the influence in the pullout behaviour of...

Modeling of expansion and cracking due to ASR with a 3D lattice model

It is generally possible to consider modeling of ASR damage in concrete in two main groups: modeling of gel formation and its expansion; modeling of ASR related damage. In this paper, authors take an attempt to combine both: simulating the correct crack formation and the connected concrete expansion. It is aimed to simulate ASR damage in a...

Investigation of porous concrete through macro and meso-scale testing

In designing a porous concrete, containing a high volume of air pores, the effects of its mesoscale phases on its macro level properties have to be known. For this purpose, porous concretes having different aggregate gradings and cement paste compositions were investigated through macro-scale strength tests. The tests showed that aggregate...

3D Simulation of micromechanical behavior of cement paste

Numerical modeling of fracture processes of brittle materials, such as cement paste, mortar, concrete and rocks, started in the late 1960s when the discrete and smeared cracking models were introduced. In the 1990s, Schlangen and van Mier proposed another numerical model to compensate the drawbacks of the discrete and smeared cracking models,...