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Prediction of water vapour sorption isotherms and microstructure of hardened Portland cement pastes
Abstract Water vapour sorption isotherms of cementitious materials reflect the multi-scale physical microstructure through its interaction with moisture. Our ability to understand and predict adsorption and desorption behaviour is essential in the application of modern performance-based approaches to durability analysis, along with many other areas of hygro-mechanical and hygro-chemo-mechanical behaviour. In this paper, a new physically based model for predicting water vapour sorption isotherms of arbitrary hardened Portland cement pastes is presented. Established thermodynamic principles, applied to a microstructure model that develops with hydration, provide a rational basis for predictions. Closed-form differentiable equations, along with a rational consideration of hysteresis and scanning phenomena, makes the model suitable for use in numerical moisture simulations. The microstructure model is reconciled with recently published 1H NMR and mercury intrusion porosimetry results.
Prediction of water vapour sorption isotherms and microstructure of hardened Portland cement pastes
Abstract Water vapour sorption isotherms of cementitious materials reflect the multi-scale physical microstructure through its interaction with moisture. Our ability to understand and predict adsorption and desorption behaviour is essential in the application of modern performance-based approaches to durability analysis, along with many other areas of hygro-mechanical and hygro-chemo-mechanical behaviour. In this paper, a new physically based model for predicting water vapour sorption isotherms of arbitrary hardened Portland cement pastes is presented. Established thermodynamic principles, applied to a microstructure model that develops with hydration, provide a rational basis for predictions. Closed-form differentiable equations, along with a rational consideration of hysteresis and scanning phenomena, makes the model suitable for use in numerical moisture simulations. The microstructure model is reconciled with recently published 1H NMR and mercury intrusion porosimetry results.
Prediction of water vapour sorption isotherms and microstructure of hardened Portland cement pastes
de Burgh, James M. (author) / Foster, Stephen J. (author) / Valipour, Hamid R. (author)
Cement and Concrete Research ; 81 ; 134-150
2015-11-27
17 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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