Sorption and transport in cementitious materials
Offered By: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne via edX
Course Description
Overview
In the MOOC: “Cement chemistry and sustainable cementitious materials”; you learned how to create more sustainable cementitious materials.
But concrete is not an inert rock. It is a dynamic porous material, which can exchange water, gas and ions with its environment. Through physical and chemical interactions, these exchanges can have dramatic consequences: cracks due to shrinkage, reinforcement bars corrosion, spalling, …
For a true sustainability, the durability of cementitious materials should not be forgotten. In this course, we will learn how to study and improve the durability of cementitious materials, to ensure that the cement industry can truly reduce its CO2 emissions.
Syllabus
The course is structured into 6 weeks of about one to two-hour lectures:
- Fluid in porous media
- Numerical methods - microscopic to macroscopic
- The water sorption cycle in cementitious materials
- Water transport in cementitious materials
- Chloride ingress
- Carbonation
Taught by
Karen Scrivener and Fabien Georget
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