The Biot-Bažant Conference

on Engineering Mechanics and Physics of Porous Materials

A One-time Fusion of Concreep and the Biot Conference on Poromechanics

Parallel Sessions (PM2) Day 2  2 Hours

3:15 pm – 5:15 pm (CDT), UTC -5

Various talks held in parallel.

Session 2.6 C-S-H Behavior

Chair Franz-Joseph Ulm


307 Understanding time-dependent behavior of hybrid organic-inorganic calcium silicate hydrates at the nanoscale – Ali Morshedifard, University of California, Irvine

397 Atomistic insights into the creep characteristics of calcium silicate hydrates – Mingfeng Kai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

158 Decoding the structural origin of creep in CSH gels by machine learning – Mathieu Bauchy, University of California, Los Angeles

306 Nanoparticle simulations of microprestress relaxation underlying the logarithmic creep of concrete – Enrico Masoero, Newcastle University

323 Creep mechanisms of C-S-H inferred from microindentation tests on cement pastes long-term dried at different relative humidity – Abudushalamu Aili, Nagoya University

386 Short-term length change measurements and sorption isotherms for structural elucidation of the C-S-H matrix in cementitious materials – Thomas A. Bier, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg

Session 3.6 Multiphysics and Multiscale Modeling

Session 4.6 Mass Transfer, Part 2

Chair ‪Chloé Arson


194 Modelling focused fluid flow with viscoplastic deformation in porous media – Lawrence Hongliang Wang, Institute of Energy Technology

270 One-dimensional flow to a constant-pressure boundary in a pressure-sensitive porous medium – Robert Zimmerman, Imperial College

348 Incompressible fluid flow in a deformable frame – Tobias Mueller, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada

269 Hydromechanical coupling and time-dependent deformation during long-term fluid injection – Nikita Bondarenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

424 Coupled multi-physics simulation of chloride diffusion in saturated and unsaturated concrete – Ying Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Session 5.6 Reactive Transport

Chair Giuseppe Buscarnera


221 Self-sufficient reactive transport modeling in concrete – Burkan Isgor, Oregon State University

245 Corrosion product transport in cementitious media – Fabio Enrico Furcas, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

393 Coupling of chloride ingress, carbonation and mechanical response for durability large scale FE modeling – Jan Cervenka, Cervenka Consulting S.R.O.

309 Microscale chemo-mechanics of shale-reactive brine interaction – Ravi Prakash, Texas A&M University

258 Effect of water transport on steel corrosion in the carbonated concrete – Zhidong Zhang, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Session 6.6 Rheological Behavior

Chair Gianluca Cusatis


428 Enabling concrete 3D printing with multi-directional reinforcement using clay-based – Mohammed Alnaggar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

427 Time-dependent discrete model for concrete 3D printing simulations – Elham Ramyar, Northwestern University

429 Connecting microstructure formation to rheology of 3-D printed cement paste – Scott Jones, NIST

430 Rheological and mechanical characterization of 3D-printed polymer concrete – Mahmoud Reda Taha, University of New Mexico

406 Shear thickening in non-Brownian suspensions – Sarah Hormozi, Cornell University