Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Thursday, 24/Apr/2025 | |||
8:00am - 6:00pm |
Registration |
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9:00am - 9:40am |
PL3: Plenary Lecture Location: EI 7 Chair: Günther Meschke Phase-field modeling, X-ray tomography and in-situ testing of fracture in concrete |
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9:40am - 10:10am |
Coffee Break |
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10:10am - 12:10pm |
MS03-4: Monitoring of fracture in heterogeneous media Location: EI 8 Chair: Nathalie Godin Chair: Dimitrios G. Aggelis Advances in 3D image processing to evaluate damage and fracture of high-performance concrete 10:30am - 10:50am To measure cracks in reinforced concrete beam without prior detection, application to diffuse cracking evaluation 10:50am - 11:10am Improvement of the acousto-ultrasonic method using model anchor bases with controlled defects 11:10am - 11:30am Damage due to microcracking in cementitious composites using AE frequency characteristics |
MS09-2: Concrete and concrete structures in fire Location: EI 2 Chair: Christian La Borderie From curing to fire accident: a novel, comprehensive model for concrete’s fire resistance 10:30am - 10:50am Constitution of an extensive experimental database for the challenge of spalling modelling 10:50am - 11:10am Influence of polypropylene fibers on thermal-induced permeability changes in concrete 11:10am - 11:30am Analysis of dehydration in high-performance concrete at high temperature using neutron radiography 11:30am - 11:50am From crack initiation to instability at high temperature: a two-stage mechanism for fire-induced spalling in concrete |
MS10-1: Discrete modeling of mechanical and coupled processes in quasi-brittle materials Location: EI 7 Chair: Jacek Tejchman Chair: Gianluca Cusatis Asymptotic homogenization of discrete models with rotational degrees of freedom 10:50am - 11:10am Effects of aggregate fragmentation, free water and strain rate on fracture in compressive concrete with a coupled DEM-CFD approach 11:10am - 11:30am Computational analysis of size effect and failure modes in reinforced concrete beams 11:30am - 11:50am Exploring induced heterogeneity in elastic discrete mechanical models 11:50am - 12:10pm Two-way coupled multiphysics simulation of lattice discrete particle model |
MS11: Coupling transport and cracking in concrete under harsh environments Location: EI 9 Chair: Syed Yasir Alam Chair: Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot This session explores latest research on the interaction between transport processes and fracture in cement-based materials, with a focus on durability, degradation mechanisms and structural performance under coupled actions.
Behaviour of reinforced cement concrete under coupled corrosion fatigue 10:30am - 10:50am Coupled reactive transport and poromechanics modelling of external sulfate attack in cementitious materials 10:50am - 11:10am Coupled transport-chemo-mechanical simulation of cement/aggregate samples affected by DEF at the aggregate scale. Effects of pre-cracked interface and comparison with experimental data 11:10am - 11:30am Gas transport behaviors of concrete designed for shielding nuclear structures 11:30am - 11:50am Poromechanical approach for prediction of fire-induced fracture and moisture transport of structural concrete 11:50am - 12:10pm Probabilistic service life prediction of chloride induced corrosion under sustained mechanical loading using multiphysical modeling |
MS13-1: Advances in the design and assessment of materials and structures for performance, safety, durability, and sustainability Location: EI 10 Chair: Alfred Strauss Chair: Túlio Bittencourt Computational and analytical modelling of carbonation-induced spalling of the concrete cover 10:30am - 10:50am Effects of corrosion on tension stiffening and cracking behaviour of reinforced Engineered Cementitious Composite and concrete 10:50am - 11:10am Comprehensive uncertainty quantification of damage-based modeling of cracking in reinforced concrete structures 11:10am - 11:30am Model uncertainties of concrete cracking resistance models based on probabilistic simulations 11:30am - 11:50am Quality control & numerical nonlinear material modelling for the load-bearing capacity of slender reinforced concrete columns - comparison of safety formats |
TT-C2: Computational modeling Location: EI 5 Chair: Beatriz Sanz Chair: Reijo Kouhia Numerical study of Brazilian tests of UHPFRC by using elements with embedded cohesive crack and cohesive joint elements 10:30am - 10:50am Tensorial continuum damage model for concrete 10:50am - 11:10am Numerical investigation of the shear behavior of reinforced concrete beams with low shear reinforcement under different boundary and loading conditions 11:10am - 11:30am Blast loading effect of explosive weight distribution on RC columns |
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12:10pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Break |
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1:30pm - 2:10pm |
PL4: Plenary Lecture Location: EI 7 Chair: Philipp Preinstorfer Introduction of dual-horizon peridynamics and nonlocal operator method |
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2:10pm - 2:20pm |
Transition to Parallel Sessions |
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2:20pm - 3:40pm |
MS01-1: Next-generation reinforced concrete: brittle behaviour and fracture mechanics assessment Location: EI 10 Chair: Federico Accornero High-performance reinforced concrete structures: brittleness size-scale effects 3:00pm - 3:20pm Ductile-to-brittle transition in high-performance prestressed concrete beams: new standards for a safe and effective design 3:20pm - 3:40pm Ductile-to-brittle transition in GFRP-bar reinforced concrete: bar-roughness effect on pseudo-plastic rotation capacity |
MS02-1: Fatigue behavior of concrete and fiber reinforced concrete Location: EI 5 Chair: Rostislav Chudoba Chair: Miroslav Vořechovský Impact of fiber distribution on fatigue life variability in high-performance fiber-reinforced concrete 2:40pm - 3:00pm A new approach to concrete fatigue S-N curves considering load application rate 3:00pm - 3:20pm Fatigue damage assessment of concrete using wide-range experimental data 3:20pm - 3:40pm Enhancing matrix-fiber bond and mechanical performance with high-performance plasticizers |
MS05-1: Application of advanced computational models to challenging engineering problems Location: EI 2 Chair: Matthias Neuner An elastoplastic phase field model for fracture in concrete based on a generalized continuum formulation 3:00pm - 3:20pm Modeling concrete at high-loading rates: insights from the Material Point Method 3:20pm - 3:40pm On the numerical modelling of punching shear in flat reinforced concrete slabs by means of the finite element method |
MS06-1: Small scale testing of mechanical and time-dependent behavior of cementitious materials Location: EI 8 Chair: Hongzhi Zhang Linearity and assessment of micro-scale creep in C-S-H via nanoindentation 2:40pm - 3:00pm CANCELLED - Fracture behavior of additively manufactured cementitious materials 3:00pm - 3:20pm Characterizing microstructural damage in cementitious composites reinforced with 3D-printed auxetic lattices using X-ray computed tomography 3:20pm - 3:40pm Multi-material printing to simultaneously enhance interlayer and flexural performance in 3D concrete printing |
MS08-1: Advances in forward and inverse damage simulation of complex materials and structures Location: EI 9 Chair: Savvas Triantafyllou Chair: Junqi Zhang A mesh adaptation algorithm to reduce mesh bias in 2D and 3D crack propagation analysis using cohesive zone models 2:40pm - 3:00pm Greyscale marker for the modeling of the fracture process of cement mortar considering heterogeneity of the microstructure 3:00pm - 3:20pm Accelerated fracture simulations for the identification of fracture parameters 3:20pm - 3:40pm Phase field fracture in fibre reinforced composites using embedded and virtual elements |
MS15-1: Engineered/Strain-Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC) Location: EI 7 Chair: Iurie Curosu Experimental study on crack distribution of RC members with reinforcing bars coated with fiber reinforced cementitious composites 2:40pm - 3:00pm Mechanical behaviour and 3D fracture morphology of sustainable engineered cementitious composites modified with boron nitride nanoparticles 3:00pm - 3:20pm On the impact performance and crack behavior of steel-fiber reinforced concrete beams with SHCC and UHPC strengthening layers 3:20pm - 3:40pm Testing and modelling of fibre-matrix interface by microcube splitting |
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2:30pm - 5:00pm |
RILEM TC-QPA meeting Location: Meeting room of Rectorate |
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3:40pm - 4:10pm |
Coffee Break |
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4:10pm - 5:30pm |
MS06-2: Small scale testing of mechanical and time-dependent behavior of cementitious materials Location: EI 8 Chair: Jiri Nemecek X-ray and neutron imaging for steel corrosion in concrete: addressing challenges and revealing opportunities 4:30pm - 4:50pm Use of convolutional neural networks for predicting the short-term creep modulus of cement paste 4:50pm - 5:10pm Effect of fiber alignment on the mechanical and electrical properties of carbon fiber reinforced cementitious composites 5:10pm - 5:30pm Monitoring crack propagation at the rock-concrete interface under different strain rates using digital image correlation technology |
MS08-2: Advances in forward and inverse damage simulation of complex materials and structures Location: EI 9 Chair: Savvas Triantafyllou Chair: Junqi Zhang Multi-scale damage analysis for concrete using the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method with High-Performance-Computing 4:30pm - 4:50pm Wood constitutive law implementation and parameter calibration using Bayesian inversion for finite-element modelling 4:50pm - 5:10pm Non-intrusive stochastic SBFEM for the uncertainty quantification of Stress Intensity Factors 5:10pm - 5:30pm Phase field fracture over quadtrees using the Virtual Element Method |
MS15-2: Engineered/Strain-Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC) Location: EI 7 Chair: Jing Yu Expertimental study on the contribution of fibers on the punching shear capacity of plain ECC slabs 4:30pm - 4:50pm Self-healing properties of seawater sea-sand strain-hardening cementitious composites (SHCC) 4:50pm - 5:10pm Mechanical properties of low-carbon Engineered Cementitious Composites with limestone and calcined clay under uniaxial cyclic compression 5:10pm - 5:30pm CANCELLED - Advancements in modeling compressive fracture in concrete using condensed high aspect ratio interface elements |
TT-E: Novel cementitious and/or other quasi-brittle materials Location: EI 10 Chair: Anne Zora Gierth Chair: Philipp Preinstorfer CANCELLED - Time-dependent tensile behavior of slag-based alkali activiated concrete 4:30pm - 4:50pm Identifying interlayer fracture properties in 3D printed concrete specimens via multidirectional flexural tests 4:50pm - 5:10pm Influence of additives on the fracture mechanical properties of reactivated cement paste 5:10pm - 5:30pm Statistical modeling of fatigue crack growth in geopolymer concrete beams |
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5:30pm - 6:30pm |
IA-FraMCoS General Assembly Location: EI 7 |
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7:30pm - 11:00pm |
Conference Banquet Location: Volkshalle, City Hall |
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