[HTML][HTML] On the hydration of limestone calcined kaolinitic clay cement and energy-efficient production

Y Yu, C Gunasekara, Y Elakneswaran, D Robert… - Cement and Concrete …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding hydration kinetics of cement composite incorporating calcined clay is crucial
in further progressing low-carbon binder designs. However, due to diversity of clays and …

A micromechanical framework for thermo-elastic properties of multiphase cementitious composites with different saturation

W Guo, F Han, J Jiang, W Xu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding of the thermo-elastic properties of cementitious composites (CC) with
different saturation degrees is of great importance for the design of CC durability in various …

Multiple-inclusion model for the transport properties of porous composites considering coupled effects of pores and interphase around spheroidal particles

W Xu, D Zhang, P Lan, Y Jiao - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding of the effects of particle geometries, pores and interphase characteristics on
transport properties of porous composites is very crucial to the smart design of porous …

Modelling steel corrosion under concrete non-uniformity and structural defects

Y Yu, W Gao, A Castel, A Liu, Y Feng, X Chen… - Cement and Concrete …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reinforcement corrosion is one of the most frequent durability problems among ageing
concrete structures. Macrocell corrosion is greatly affected by both concrete properties and …

An integrated framework for modelling time-dependent corrosion propagation in offshore concrete structures

Y Yu, W Gao, A Castel, X Chen, A Liu - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Reinforcement corrosion is an enduring durability issue essential to the designs and
maintenances of diverse offshore concrete structures. The corrosion propagation can be …

Machine learning aided durability and safety analyses on cementitious composites and structures

Y Yu, D Wu, Q Wang, X Chen, W Gao - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - Elsevier
The adverse impacts of material deterioration on structural durability and human safety have
become increasingly recognised. This paper is concerned with novel metamodeling on the …

Physics-based stochastic aging corrosion analysis assisted by machine learning

Y Yu, B Dong, W Gao, A Sofi - Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
Chloride-induced corrosion in reinforced structures is complex, involving simultaneous
material aging and diverse uncertainties. To computationally interpret such a process, the …

[HTML][HTML] Unified hydration model for multi-blend fly ash cementitious systems of wide-range replacement rates

Y Yu, C Gunasekara, Y Elakneswaran, D Robert… - Cement and Concrete …, 2024 - Elsevier
Developments of binary, ternary, and even quaternary cementitious binder materials have
been widely recognised in research and practices to elevate the sustainability of modern …

Assessing external sulfate attack on thin-shell artificial reef structures under uncertainty

Y Yu, W Gao, A Castel, A Liu, X Chen, M Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Thin-shell artificial reef (AR) structures with spatial internal volumes have demonstrated
superior stock recruitment ability and material efficiency than many gravity-based reef …

A space fractal derivative crack model for characterizing chloride ions superdiffusion in concrete in the marine tidal zone

S Yan, Y Liu, Y Liang - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, a space fractal derivative model incorporating a variable diffusion coefficient is
established to characterize chloride superdiffusion in cracked concrete structures. To …