For the evaluation of the risk of thermal cracking in hardening massive concrete elements,
knowledge of the development of strength and deformability of early-age concrete is …

Long span suspension bridges cost billions. In recent decades, structural health monitoring
systems have been developed to measure the loading environment and responses of these …

It is important to take into account the effect of temperature in assessing the structural
condition of bridges. However, very few quantitative studies have examined the temperature …

Cement-based materials encompass a broad spectrum of construction materials that utilize
cement as the primary binding agent. Among these materials, concrete stands out as the …

Abstract Very early age (0–20 h) concrete hydration is a complicated chemical reaction.
During the very early age period, the concrete condition dramatically changes from liquid …

Thermal effects have been frequently associated with concrete-bridge damage. The
nonlinear temperature distributions that arise in bridges are not easily estimated and are …

In this paper, we present a new multi-physics computational framework that enables us to
capture and investigate complex fracture behavior in cement-based materials at early-age …

In view of the growing use of High Performance Concrete, with large hydration-induced
volumetric changes (both thermal and shrinkage related), numerical modelling of concrete at …