Addition of rice husk ash (RHA) is an effective internal curing method to mitigate self-desiccation and autogenous shrinkage of hydrating cementitious materials. Although a certain number of experimental research studies on this topic have been carried out, comprehensive investigation of the numerical simulation of the mitigating effect of RHA on autogenous shrinkage of cementitious materials is still scarce. In this study, a numerical model of autogenous shrinkage of RHA blended cement mortar was proposed. The proposed numerical model was based on a Pickett model and improved by taking the visco-elastic behaviour of RHA blended cementitious materials into account. Final setting time, chemically bound water, compressive strength, internal relative humidity (RH) and autogenous shrinkage of pure Portland cementitious materials and RHA blended cementitious materials were experimentally studied. The liquid absorption capacity and water vapour desorption isotherm of RHA were also measured. Comparison between the simulated and measured autogenous shrinkage showed that the autogenous shrinkage of RHA blended cement mortar can be predicted accurately with the proposed numerical model.

Password hardening encryption (PHE) is an emerging primitive in recent years. It can resist offline attack brought by keyword guessing attack from server via adding a third party with crypto services joining the decryption process. This primitive enhances the password authentication protocol and adds encryption functionality. This paper presents an active attack from server in the first scheme that introduced this primitive. This attack combines the idea from a cutting-edge threat called algorithm substitution attack which is undetectable and makes the server capable of launching offline attack. This result shows that the original PHE scheme can not resist attacks from malicious server. Then this study tries to summarize the property that an algorithm substitution attack resistant scheme should have. After that this paper presents a PHE scheme that can resist such kind of attacks from malicious server with simulation results. Finally, this study concludes the result and gives some expectation for future systematic research on interactive protocols under algorithm substitution attack.