Published in KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
The axial compression test of concrete with different initial cracks under hydrostatic pressure is carried out. The fracture propagation is analyzed based on the bearing state as well as the apparent phenomena of the specimens, and the failure modes and morphologies are further elaborated. The test results show that with the increase of the hydrost...
Limestone-siliceous and siliceous concretes are used in reactor pits of French nuclear power plants. In case of severe nuclear reactor accident, failure of the reactor vessel would lead to interaction between molten corium (hot melt of nuclear fuel) and concrete. This paper focuses on the thermal degradation of both limestone-siliceous and siliceou...
Published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
This paper reports the laboratory measurement of ultrasonic pulse velocity and compressive strength on early-age concrete exposed to elevated temperature. Concrete specimens were cast with 0.5 and 0.6 water–cement ratios and cured for 3, 7 and 28 days. After each curing period, samples were exposed to peak temperatures of 400 °C, 600 °C and 800 °C ...
Published in Materials and Structures
Many prestressed concrete bridges are reported to suffer from excessive vertical deflections and cracking during their service life. Creep softens the structure significantly, and therefore an accurate prediction of creep is necessary to determine long-term deflections in elements under eccentric axial compression such as prestressed concrete girde...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
In this study, the influence of twelve concrete mix ratios and two rebar grades on the cost of 3, 7, 12 and 20 story RC building frames was investigated. Cylindrical concrete specimens having different mix ratios (by mass) were prepared with Ordinary Portland Cement and locally available fine and coarse aggregates. The compressive strength of concr...
Published in Nordic Concrete Research
It has been shown in previous studies that the existing precast concrete element building stock in Finland has quality issues, especially with freeze-thaw durability and reinforcement corrosion. In addition, it has been presented that deterioration rate is the fastest in coastal area and decreases towards north which has been supposed to be a reaso...
This paper presents the vision behind the McBIM project, funded by the French National Agency of Research (ANR). McBIM stands for "Communicating Matter for BIM" and is a concept coined by the CRAN laboratory, concept at the basis of the scientific contributions of the project. Building upon latest advances in Semantic Web technologies, Wireless Sen...
L'Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) s'intéresse à l'étude des réactions de gonflement interne, dont les Réactions Sulfatiques, et à leur impact sur l'évolution des propriétés du matériau cimentaire. Les Réactions Sulfatiques sont caractérisées par la précipitation de l'ettringite, dans les pores du matériau durci entraînant ...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
The objective of this work is to apply a stochastic point process technique in the evaluation of aggregate composition parameters for concrete. Several experimental, numeric and computational methods have been used for determining an ideal packing of aggregates for concrete, based on the principle of the lowest content of voids. Experimental method...
Cette recherche s’inscrit dans le cadre de la surveillance structurale des enceintes de confinement des centrales nucléaires qu’EDF exploite. L’objectif est de déterminer comment la connaissance de la teneur en eau du béton de ces ouvrages pourrait améliorer les prédictions de leur comportement mécanique, qui sont régulièrement réalisées dans le ca...
