Application of micromechanical modelling of hydrated cement paste (HCP) gains more and
more interests in the field of cementitious materials. One of the most promising approaches …

The micro-sized graphite dust plays an important role in pebble-bed high temperature gas-
cooled reactors, for the close relation with the fission products (FPs). However, an accurate …

A method is presented to model deformation and fracture behavior of 3D printed disordered
lattice materials under uniaxial tensile load. A lattice model was used to predict crack pattern …

In this work, porosity-property relationships of quasi-brittle materials are explored through a
combined experimental and numerical approach. In the experimental part, hemihyrate …

The aim of this work is to investigate the mechanical performance of hardened cement paste
(HCP) under compression at the micrometre length scale. In order to achieve this, both …

Phase change materials (PCMs) have found their use in concrete technology for increasing
energy efficiency of building envelopes. In recent years, however, new potential applications …

This paper presents a validation procedure of multi-scale modelling scheme by making,
testing and modelling deformation and fracture of cement paste beam at sub-meso scale …

This work proposes a method for numerically investigating the fracture mechanism of
cement paste at the microscale based on X-ray computed tomography and nanoindentation …

Cement paste possesses complex microstructural features including defects/pores over a
range of length-scales, from nanometres to millimetres in size. As a consequence, it exhibits …

Nuclear-grade graphite is a critically important high-temperature structural material for
current and potentially next generation of fission reactors worldwide. It is imperative to …