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1 Physical Phenomena Involved in Flows of Fresh Cementitious Materials |
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1.2 Is Concrete a Discrete or a Continuum Material? |
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1.3 Macroscopic Rheological Behavior |
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1.5 Particle Interactions |
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1.5.1 Review of Interactions |
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1.5.2 Brownian Forces and Colloidal Interactions at the Cement Paste Scale |
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1.5.3 Direct Contact Network between Particles |
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1.5.4 Hydrodynamic Interactions and Viscosity |
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1.5.5 Relative Contributions of Yield Stress and Viscosity and Bingham Number |
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1.5.6 Kinetic Energy and Reynolds Number |
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1.6 Stability and Static Segregation |
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1.7 Dynamic Segregation and Granular Blocking |
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1.8 Fiber Orientation and Induced Anisotropy |
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1.9 Thixotropy and Transient Behavior |
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1.10 Behavior at the Walls |
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1.10.1 Slip Velocity and Slip Layer |
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1.10.3 Wall Roughness and Particles Size |
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2 Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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2.1 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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2.2 Material Behaviour Law |
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2.2.1 Governing Equations |
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2.2.2 Constitutive Equations -- Generalised Newtonian Model |
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2.3 Solving a Fluid Problem |
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29 | (4) |
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2.3.2 Dimensional Analysis of Concrete Flows |
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2.3.2.1 Dimensional Analysis of Slump and Slump Flow Tests |
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2.3.2.2 Standard Shear Flows in Industrial Practice |
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2.3.2.3 Filling Prediction |
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2.4 Ananlytical Solutions |
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2.4.1.1 Slump and Slump Flow |
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2.6 Simulation of Fresh Cementitious Materials |
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2.6.1 Standard Test Methods |
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2.6.4.2 Castings -- Consequences of Structural Build Up |
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2.6.5 Industrial Applications |
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2.6.5.1 Prediction of Flow in Pre-cambered Composite Beam |
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2.6.5.2 Flow Simulation of Fresh Concrete under a Slip-Form Machine |
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54 | (3) |
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2.6.5.3 Flow Simulation of Nuclear Waste Disposal Filling |
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3 Simulation of Fresh Concrete Flow Using Discrete Element Method (DEM) |
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3.2 Discrete Element Method |
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3.2.1 Governing Equations |
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3.2.3 Software Used in Concrete Engineering |
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3.2.3.1 Particle Flow Code (PFC) from ITASCA |
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3.2.3.2 EDEM from DEM Solutions |
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3.2.3.3 Alternative DEM Software |
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3.3 Simulating Concrete Flow Using DEM |
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3.3.1 Discretisation of Concrete by Discrete Particles |
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3.3.3 Constitutive Relationships |
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3.3.4 Parameter Estimation |
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3.3.5 Particle Size Effect and Dimensional Analysis |
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3.4 Calibration and Verification |
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3.4.1 Slump and Slump Flow |
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3.4.2 J-Ring Test and L-Box Test |
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3.5 Industrial Applications |
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4 Numerical Errors in CFD and DEM Modeling |
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4.2 Basics of CFD -- Understanding the Source of Errors |
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4.2.1 Taylor Approximation |
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4.2.2 A Very Simple CFD Example -- Automatic Generation of Errors |
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4.3 Numerical Errors (E1) |
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4.3.1 Discretization Error |
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4.3.2 Iterative Convergence Errors |
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4.6 Error from Input Uncertainties (U1) |
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4.7 Physical Model Uncertainty (U2) |
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114 | (6) |
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4.7.1 Choosing the Correct Material Model |
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114 | (1) |
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4.7.2 Implementation of Yield Stress |
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114 | (1) |
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4.7.2.1 A Theoretically Correct Bingham Presentation |
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4.7.2.2 Viscoplastic Implementation for CFD |
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4.7.2.3 Comparison of Different Viscoplastic Implementations |
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4.8 Sources of Numerical Error in DEM Simulations |
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4.8.1 Mono-disperse Particles |
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4.8.3 Density Scaling Errors |
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5 Advanced Methods and Future Perspectives |
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5.2.1 FEMLIP Method from EC Nantes |
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5.2.2 Two-Phase Model from IBAC and IVT |
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127 | (3) |
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5.2.3 Dissipative Particle Dynamics from NIST |
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130 | (1) |
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5.2.3.1 Concrete as a Multi-scale Material |
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5.2.3.2 Computational Models |
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5.2.3.3 Some Fundamental Insights into Yield Stress |
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133 | (2) |
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5.2.3.4 Insights to the Effect of Particle Sizes and Shapes |
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5.2.4 Prediction of Dynamic Segregation from DTU |
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5.2.5 Fibre Orientation Modelling |
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5.2.5.3 Aligned Fibre Assumption |
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5.2.5.4 Interactions between Fibres |
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139 | (1) |
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5.2.5.5 Yield Stress Effect |
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139 | (1) |
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5.2.5.6 Multi-fibres Approach |
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5.2.5.7 Application to Shear Flow between Two Parallel Walls |
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5.2.5.8 Industrial Application |
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5.2.6 Fully Coupled Simulation of Suspension of non-Newtonian Fluid and Rigid Particles |
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5.2.6.1 Modelling Strategy |
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5.2.6.2 Level of Fluid: Fluid Dynamics Solver |
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5.2.6.3 Level of Fluid: Free Surface Algorithm |
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5.2.6.4 Level of Fluid-Particles Interaction: Immersed Boundary Method |
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143 | (1) |
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5.2.6.5 Level of Particles: Adaptive Sub-stepping Algorithm |
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5.2.6.6 Level of Particles: Interaction of Particles |
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5.2.6.7 Application to the Effect of Particles on Effective Rheological Properties |
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144 | (1) |
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5.2.6.8 Application to Dynamic Segregation in a Complex Flow |
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Author Index |
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