A review on data-driven constitutive laws for solids

JN Fuhg, G Anantha Padmanabha, N Bouklas… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
This review article highlights state-of-the-art data-driven techniques to discover, encode,
surrogate, or emulate constitutive laws that describe the path-independent and path …

A review of X-ray computed tomography of concrete and asphalt construction materials

A du Plessis, WP Boshoff - Construction and Building Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
The microstructural details of concrete and asphalt construction materials are crucial in
understanding and improving their material properties for structural applications in civil …

A CT image-driven computational framework for investigating complex 3D fracture in mesoscale concrete

Y Huang, S Natarajan, H Zhang, F Guo, S Xu… - Cement and Concrete …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of fracture in concrete depends on the characterization of real meso-
structures. Micro X-ray computed tomography (CT) can fulfil this task but is still too expensive …

Multiscale X-ray tomography of cementitious materials: A review

S Brisard, M Serdar, PJM Monteiro - Cement and Concrete Research, 2020 - Elsevier
X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a non-destructive technique that offers a 3D insight into
the microstructure of thick (opaque) samples with virtually no preliminary sample …

Digital volume correlation: review of progress and challenges

A Buljac, C Jailin, A Mendoza, J Neggers… - Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract 3D imaging has become popular for analyzing material microstructures. When time
lapse series of 3D pictures are acquired during a single experiment, it is possible to …

Mesoscale modelling of concrete–a review of geometry generation, placing algorithms, constitutive relations and applications

PSM Thilakarathna, KSK Baduge, P Mendis… - Engineering Fracture …, 2020 - Elsevier
Concrete can be considered as a heterogeneous material at mesoscale comprising of
several constituents such as aggregates, mortar and Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ) …

Research on crumb rubber concrete: From a multi-scale review

XU Jie, Z Yao, G Yang, Q Han - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Crumb rubber concrete (CRC) with waste rubber as aggregate has emerged in the past
decades. In this paper, the microstructure, numerical microstructure simulation, pore …

Overview of the use of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to investigate the relation between the material characteristics and properties of cement-based …

SY Chung, JS Kim, D Stephan, TS Han - Construction and Building …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cement-based materials are generally highly heterogeneous, and their material properties
are strongly affected by the characteristics and spatial distributions of each constituent …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the effects of nanosilica on the material properties of lightweight and ultra-lightweight concrete using image-based approaches

P Sikora, T Rucinska, D Stephan, SY Chung… - … and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
This work is aimed at characterizing the effects of nanosilica (NS) on the properties of
lightweight aggregate concretes with different densities. Lightweight aggregate concrete …

Advances in characterizing and understanding the microstructure of cementitious materials

PJM Monteiro, G Geng, D Marchon, J Li… - Cement and Concrete …, 2019 - Elsevier
Progress in microstructural characterization methods is summarized. Special attention is
given to advanced probes, such as X-ray imaging and spectroscopy, 1 H NMR relaxometry …