MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub: Recent submissions

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    • Research Brief: Capillary Stress During Cement Drying Shrinkage 

      Zhou, Tingtao (Edmond); Pellenq, Roland; Bazant, Martin; Gregory, Jeremy; Kirchain, Randolph (2018-06)
      Imagine a household sponge lying next to a kitchen sink. The sponge looks and feels different when it is wet versus when it is dry. When a sponge dries, it shrinks, curls and hardens due to suction forces (called “capillary ...

    • Research Brief: Prioritizing Resilient Retrofits 

      Roxon, Jake; Pellenq, Roland; Ulm, Franz-Josef (2018-02)
      2017 was one of the most devastating U.S. hurricane seasons ever recorded. State Departments of Public Safety across the country list tens of thousands of destroyed homes and hundreds of thousands more damaged. Although ...

    • Research Brief: Modeling the Freeze-Thaw Damage Mechanism in Cement 

      Zhou, Tingtao (Edmond); Mirzadeh, Mohammad; Pellenq, Roland; Bazant, Martin (2019-01)
      Freeze-thaw (FT) damage is a significant threat to roads and pavement, yet the underlying mechanism is still unclear. Conventional thinking attributes the damage to pressure generated by expansion of water upon freezing. ...