On the identification of rheological properties of cement suspensions: Rheometry, Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling and field test measurements

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1134-1146

  Ferrara, Liberato ^a   Cremonesi, Massimiliano ^a   Tregger, Nathan ^b   Frangi, Attilio ^b   Shah, Surendra P ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Modeling (E); Rheology (A)

Indexed keywords

CEMENT PASTE; CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES; CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; FIELD APPLICATION; FIELD TEST; FLOW-TIME; PLASTIC VISCOSITY; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; RHEOMETRY; SLUMP FLOW;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY;

RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84862763056     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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