Abstract Engineered/Strain-Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC) are fiber-
reinforced cement-based materials with tensile strain-hardening and multiple-cracking …

Support vector machines (SVMs) have recently been used to model the properties of low
volume fly ash self-compacting concrete (LVF-SCC) by means of kernel functions to …

The casting and testing specimens for determining the mechanical properties of concrete is
a time-consuming activity. This study employed supervised machine learning techniques …

Concrete is a material that is widely used in the construction market due to its availability
and cost, although it is prone to fracture formation. Therefore, there has been a surge in …

The discovery of an innovative category of inorganic geopolymer composites has generated
extensive scientific attention and the kaleidoscopic development of their applications. The …

New additive manufacturing methods for cementitious materials hold a high potential to
increase automation in the construction industry. However, these methods require new …

Cracks in concrete are the main reason for a decreased service life of concrete structures. It
is therefore more advisable and economical to restrict the development of early age small …

Two fine powders collected from construction and demolition wastes (CDW), ie, recycled
concrete powder (RCP) and recycled clay brick powder (RBP), were used as partial …

Abstract Micromechanical model based Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) can be
designed with strain capacity ranging from three hundred to five hundred times compared to …

The presence of deleterious substances and their transport are among the most important
factors controlling the durability of cementitious composites. The present paper studies the …