Center for Sustainable Engineering of Geological and Infrastructure Materials

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LDPM SIMULATION

Crack Opening during Buckling of Plates

EXPERIMENTS

Making reinforced concrete beams for the self-healing project.

EXPERIMENTS AND LDPM SIMULATION

Behavior of Ultra-High-Performance-Concrete Cor-Tuf

EXPERIMENTS

Mechanical Tests on Shale Specimens

LDPM SIMULATION

LDPM Simulation using Coarse Graining

LDPM SIMULATION

LDPM Simulation of Cor-Tuf Projectile Penetration

MICROPLANE MODELING

Microplane Constitutive Modeling of Carbon-Polymer Laminates and Prediction of Car Crashworthiness (Mr. Kedar Kirane, Ms. Shiva Esna Ashari, Mr. Roozbeh Rezakhani, Dr. Marco Salviato) (PI: Prof Zdenek Bazant and Prof. Gianluca Cusatis)

ASR SIMULATION

LDPM Simulation of Alkali Silica Reaction (ASR) Deterioration of Concrete

NUMERICAL SIMULATION

Prediction of Localized Compaction Band Formation in Carbonate Rocks under Oedometric Condition

LDPM SIMULATION

Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Beams

FEM SIMULATION

Comminution of Solids due to Kinetic Energy of High-Rate Shear

EXPERIMENTS

Experimental Setup to Measure Internal Relative Humidity and Temperature in Self-Healing Concrete

EXPERIMENTS

Preparing samples for tension fber pull-out test on high performance concrete

LDPM SIMULATION

Multiscale Homogenization

EXPERIMENTS

Feasibility of Sulfur Concrete for Martian Constructions

MICROPLANE MODELING

Fracture and Size Effect on Strength of Plain Concrete Disks under Biaxial Flexure

HYDROMECHANICAL SIMULATION

Development of Physically-Based, Spatially Distributed Models for Rainfall-Induced Landslides

EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATION

Unsaturated Breakage Mechanics

NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHOD

Stability of Multiphase Porous Media at Various Levels of Fluid Saturation

Center Highlights

  • Mechanical Characterization of Shale Behavior

    Profs. Bazant and Cusatis are developing microplane and lattice-particle models for the mechanical behavior of tight shales with the objective of developing computational tools for the predictive simulation of hydraulic fracturing in unconventional gas reservoir.

  • Alkali-Silica Reaction Damage of Concrete

    Profs. Bazant, Cusatis, and Qu are making breakthrough progress towards the NDE assessment and multiscale modeling of concrete aging and degradation due to Alkali-Silica reaction.

  • Failure of Geotechnical and Geophysical Systems subjected to environmental deterioration

    Prof. Buscarnera is formulating analytical and computational methods to capture inelastic deformations in multi-phase geomaterials interacting with the environment.

  • Nanomodification of Cementitious Systems

    Profs. Corr and Shah are discovering innovative ways to improve concrete performance through the use of nano-scaled materials. The incorporation of nanoparticles enhance packing density and improve early age properties while also seeding the pozzolanic reaction to increase the rates of strength gain.