Flow Lattice Model for the simulation of chemistry dependent transport phenomena in cementitious materials

This study presents the formulation and validation of a three-dimensional Flow Lattice Model (FLM) with application to the Hygro-Thermo-Chemical (HTC) model for analysis of moisture transport and heat transfer in cementitious materials. The FLM is a discrete transport model formulated in association...

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Published in:European journal of environmental and civil engineering 2024-04, Vol.28 (5), p.1039-1063
Main Authors: Yin, Hao, Cibelli, Antonio, Brown, Susan-Alexis, Yang, Lifu, Shen, Lei, Alnaggar, Mohammed, Cusatis, Gianluca, Di Luzio, Giovanni
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
cement hydration
Discrete modelling
dual lattice
heat transfer
moisture transport
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Summary:This study presents the formulation and validation of a three-dimensional Flow Lattice Model (FLM) with application to the Hygro-Thermo-Chemical (HTC) model for analysis of moisture transport and heat transfer in cementitious materials. The FLM is a discrete transport model formulated in association with meso-mechanical models, such as the Lattice Discrete Particle Model. This enables the simulation of transport phenomena at the length scale at which the material exhibits intrinsic heterogeneity. The HTC theoretical formulation is based on mass and energy conservation laws, written using humidity and temperature as primary variables, and considering explicitly various chemical reactions, for example, cement hydration and silica fume reaction, as internal variables. In this work, the HTC formulation was extended to include the effect of temperature on the sorption isotherm. The FLM solutions were compared with those of a continuum finite element implementation of the HTC model and experimental data available from the literature; the overall agreement demonstrates the reliability of the proposed approach in reproducing phenomena such as cement hydration, self-desiccation and temperature-dependent moisture drying.
ISSN:1964-8189
2116-7214
DOI:10.1080/19648189.2023.2242456