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2009-2012

Pavements

Xu, L., E. Monier, A. Schlosser, R. Kirchain and J. Gregory (2017). "Estimating the potential of U.S. urban infrastructure albedo enhancement as climate mitigation in the face of climate variability." Joint Program Report Series Report 319, September, 9 p.
Mack, J., Akbarian, M., Ulm, F-J. Louhghalam A. Overview of Pavement Vehicle Interaction Related Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub. Presented at the 13^th International Symposium on Concrete Pavements, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
Mack, J., Swei, O., Akabarian, M., Gregory, J., and Kirchain, R. A Review of Pavement Economic Studies at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub. Presented at the 13^th International Symposium on Concrete Pavements, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
Akbarian, M., Randolph K., Jeremy G., and Ulm, F-J. Probabilistic Evaluation of Pavement-Induced Excess Fuel Consumption Given Data Unavailability and Future Uncertainty. Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting. No. 18-06086. 2018.
Louhghalam A., Akbarian, Mehdi; Ulm, Franz-Josef “Flugge's Conjecture: Dissipation- versus Deflection-Induced Pavement-Vehicle Interactions” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Volume 140, Issue 8, Article Number 04014053, August 2014
F. Giustozzi, F. Ponzoni, A. Louhghalam, R. Kirchain & J. Gregory (2018) "Sensitivity analysis of a deflection-induced pavement–vehicle interaction model, Road Materials and Pavement Design," DOI: 10.1080/14680629.2018.1479288
Swei, O., Gregory, J., Kirchain, R., Construction cost estimation: A parametric approach for better estimates of expected cost and variation. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. Volume 101, July 2017, Pages 295–305
Kirchain, R., Gregory, J., Olivetti, E. Environmental life-cycle assessment. Nature Materials, 16 693–697 (2017)
Gregory, J., Noshadravan, A., Swei, O., Xu, X., Kirchain, R. “The importance of incorporating uncertainty into pavement life cycle cost and environmental impact analyses,” Proceedings of the Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment Symposium 2017, Champaign, IL, April 12-13, 2017
Akbarian, M., Swei, O., and Gregory, J. "Probabilistic Characterization of Life-Cycle Agency and User Costs: Case Study of Minnesota," Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2639, 2017, pp. 93–101. 2017
Swei, O., Gregory, J., and Kirchain, R. Probabilistic Approach for Long-Run Price Projections: Case Study of Concrete and Asphalt. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 2016.
Gregory, J., Noshadravan, A., Olivetti, E.A., Kirchain, R., A Methodology for Robust Comparative Life Cycle Assessments Incorporating Uncertainty. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 50: Issue. 12: Pages. 6397-6405.
Swei, Omar. Probabilistic Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Pavements: Drivers of Variation and Implications of Context, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2523. Pages 47–55. 2016. (PDF)
Louhghalam A., Akbarian, M., Ulm F-J. Carbon management of infrastructure performance: Integrated big data analytics and pavement-vehicle-interactions. Journal of Cleaner Production. Volume 142, Part 2, 20 January 2017, Pages 956-964. 2016
Booshehrian A., Louhghalam A., Khazanovich L., Ulm F-J. Assessment of Pavement Deflection-Caused Fuel Consumption via FWD Data Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting, No. 16-6246. 2016.
Xu, X., Gregory J., Kirchain R., Climate Impacts of Surface Albedo: Review and Comparative Analysis. Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting, No. 16-6158. 2016.
Coleri, E., Harvey, J., Zaabar, I., Louhghalam, A., Chatti, K., Model Development, Field Section Characterization, and Model Comparison for Excess Vehicle Fuel Use due to Pavement Structural Response No. 16-6191. 2016.
Swei O., Gregory J., Kirchain R., Pavement Management Systems: Opportunities to Improve the Current Frameworks Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting, No. 16-2940. 2016.
Akbarian, Mehdi, et al. "Network Analysis of Virginia’s Interstate Pavement-Vehicle Interactions: Mapping of Roughness and Deflection-Induced Excess Fuel Consumption." Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting. No. 15-5752. 2015.
Louhghalam, A., Akbarian M., and Ulm F-J. "Roughness-induced pavement-vehicle interactions: Key parameters and impact on vehicle fuel consumption." Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting. No. 15-2429. 2015.
Xu, X., Gregory J., Kirchain R., "Role of the Use Phase and Pavement-Vehicle Interaction in Comparative Pavement Life Cycle Assessment" Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting. No. 15-4011. 2015.
Batouli, M., Swei, O. A., Zhu, J., Gregory, J., Kirchain, R., & Mostafavi, A. “A Simulation Framework for Network Level Cost Analysis in Infrastructure Systems.” 2015 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering. 2015
J. Mack, J. Gregory, R. Kirchain, “Accounting for Rehabilitation Activity Uncertainty in a Pavement Life Cycle Assessment using Probability and Decision Tree Analysis,” Proceedings of the International Concrete Sustainability Conference, Miami, FL, May 11-13, 2015.
Louhghalam, A., Mazdak T., and Ulm F-J. "Roughness-Induced Vehicle Energy Dissipation: Statistical Analysis and Scaling." Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2015: 04015046.
Noshadravan A., Xu X., Gregory J., Kirchain R., “Uncertainty management in comparative life-cycle assessment of pavements”, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Concrete Roads, Prague, Czech Republic, September 23-26, 2014.
O. Swei, J. Gregory, R. Kirchain, “Probabilistic life-cycle cost of pavements: characterization and application of parameter input variation for scenarios”, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Concrete Roads, Prague, Czech Republic, September 23-26, 2014.
Xu X., Noshadravan A., J. Gregory, R. Kirchain, “Scenario analysis of comparative pavement life cycle assessment using a probabilistic approach,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement LCA, Davis, CA, October 14-16, 2014.
J. Mack, X. Xu, J. Gregory, R. Kirchain, “Developing robust rehabilitation scenario profiles for life cycle assessment using decision tree analysis,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement LCA, Davis, CA, October 14-16, 2014.
Louhghalam, A., Akbarian M., and Ulm F-J. “Mapping Pavement-Vehicle Interaction Life Cycle Impacts on Virginia’s Interstate System,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement LCA, Davis, CA, October 14-16, 2014
Louhghalam A., Akbarian M., Ulm F.-J., Pavement Infrastructures Footprint: The Impact of Pavement Properties on Vehicle Fuel Consumption, Euro-C 2014 conference: Computational Modeling of Concrete and Concrete Structures, 2014
Louhghalam A., Akbarian M., Ulm, F-J. “Scaling Relationships of Dissipation-Induced Pavement-Vehicle Interactions” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2014), Issue 2457, Pages 95-104.
Swei O., Gregory J., Kirchain R., Probabilistic Characterization of Uncertain Inputs in the Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Pavements, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2366, Pages 71–77, 2013.
Santero N., Loijos A., Ochsendorf J., Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Opportunities for Concrete Pavements, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 859–868, 2013
Loijos A., Santero N., Ochsendorf J. Life cycle climate impacts of the US concrete pavement network. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. Volume 72, March 2013, Pages 76-83, 2013.
Noshadravan A., Wildnauer M., Gregory J., Kirchain R., Comparative Pavement Life Cycle Assessment with Parameter Uncertainty, Transportation Research Part D, 25, Pages 135-138, 2013
Akbarian M., Moeini-Ardakani S.S., Ulm F.-J., Nazzal M., Mechanistic Approach to Pavement-Vehicle Interaction and Its Impact on Life-Cycle Assessment, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2306, Pages 171-179, 2012
Mack J., Ulm F.-J., Gregory J., Kirchain R., Akbarian M., Swei O., Wildnauer M., Designing Sustainable Concrete Pavements using the Pavement-ME Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design and Life Cycle Analysis, International Conference on Long-Life Concrete Pavement, 2012
Loijos A., Akbarian M., Sahni S., Ochsendorf J., Sensitivity Analysis of the Life Cycle Environmental Performance of Asphalt and Concrete Pavements, Concrete Sustainability Conference, 2010

Buildings

Hester, J., Gregory, J., Ulm, F.J., Kirchain, R. “Building design-space exploration through quasi-optimization of life cycle impacts and costs” Building and Environment, Volume 144, 15 October 2018, Pages 34-44.
Keremides, Konstantinos, Qomi, Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini; Pellenq, Roland J. M.; and Ulm, Franz-Josef. “Potential-of-Mean-Force Approach for Molecular Dynamics–Based Resilience Assessment of Structures” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Volume 144, Issue 8 (2018)
Sobstyl, J.M., Emig, T., Abdolhosseini Qomi, M.J., Ulm, F.-J., and Pellenq R. J.-M., "Role of City Texture in Urban Heat Islands at Night Time." Physical Review Letters, February 2018
Tecchio, P., Gregory, J., Ghattas, R., and Kirchain, R. "Structured Under-Specification of Life Cycle Impact Assessment Data for Building Assemblies" Journal of Industrial Ecology (2018).
Noori, M., Miller, R., Kirchain, R., Gregory, J., "How much should be invested in hazard mitigation? Development of a streamlined hazard mitigation cost assessment framework," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2018)
Tecchio, P., Gregory, J., Olivetti, E., Ghattas, R., and Kirchain, R. "Streamlining the Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings by Structured Under-Specification and Probabilistic Triage" Journal of Industrial Ecology (2018)
Hester, J., Gregory, J., Kirchain, R. "Actionable insights with less data: guiding early building design decisions with streamlined probabilistic life cycle assessment"The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2018).
Rodrigues, C., Kirchain, R., Freire, F., Gregory, J. "Streamlined environmental and cost life-cycle approach for building thermal retrofits: A case of residential buildings in South European climates" Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 172, 20 January 2018, Pages 2625-2635 (2018).
Hester, J., Gregory, J., Kirchain, R. "Sequential early-design guidance for residential single-family buildings using a probabilistic metamodel of energy consumption" Energy and Buildings, Volume 134, 1 January 2017, Pages 202-211
Kirchain, R., Gregory, J., Olivetti, E. Environmental life-cycle assessment. Nature Materials, 16 693–697 (2017)
Noshadravan, A.; Miller, T.R.; and Gregory, J. "A Lifecycle Cost Analysis of Residential Buildings Including Natural Hazard Risk" Journal of Construction and Engineering Management, 2017.
Qomi, Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini; Noshadravan, A.; Sobstyl, J.; Toole, J.; Ferreira, J.; Pellenq, RJM, Ulm, Franz-Josef; Gonzalez, M. “Data analytics for simplifying thermal efficiency planning in cities” Journal of the Royal Society Interface, April 2016

Concrete Science

Pinson, M.B., Zhou, T., Jennings, H.M., Bazant, M.Z. “Inferring pore connectivity from sorption hysteresis in multiscale porous media” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Volume 532, 15 December 2018, Pages 118-127
Cao, P., Dahmen, K., Kushima, A., Wright, W., Park, H., Short, M., Yip, S., "Nanomechanics of slip avalanches in amorphous plasticity." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 114 (2018) 158–171.
Cao, P., Short, M., Yip, S. "Understanding the mechanisms of amorphous creep through molecular simulation" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2017, 114 (52) 13631-13636; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708618114 (2017)
K. Ioannidou, E. Del Gado, F.-J. Ulm and R. J.-M. Pellenq, Inhomogeneity in cement paste: linking local packing fraction to local stresses, Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, 7 (2), 04017003 (2017)
K. Ioannidou, B. Carrier, M. Vandamme and R. J.-M. Pellenq, The Potential of Mean Force concept for bridging (length and time) scales in the modeling of complex porous materials, European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 140, 01009 (2017)
K. Ioannidou, F.-J. Ulm, P. Levitz, E. Del Gado, and R. J.-M. Pellenq, Nano-granular texture of cement hydrates, European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 140, 15027 (2017)
K. Ioannidou, K. J. Krakowiak, M. Bauchy, C. G. Hoover, E. Masoero, S. Yip, F.-J. Ulm, P. Levitz, R. J.-M. Pellenq, and E. Del Gado, The mesoscale texture of cement hydrates, Proceedings of National Academy of Science USA, 113 (8), 2029-2034 (2016)
K. Ioannidou, E. Masoero, P. Levitz, R. J.-M. Pellenq, and E. Del Gado, Hydration kinetics and gel morphology of C-S-H, CONCREEP 10: Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures: pp. 565 (2015)
Bauchy, M.; Laubie, H.; Qomi, M. J. Abdolhosseini; et al. “Fracture toughness of calcium-silicate-hydrate from molecular dynamics simulations” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. Volume 419, Pages 58-64, July 2015
Qomi, Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini; Ulm, Franz-Josef; Pellenq, RJM “Physical Origins of Thermal Properties of Cement Paste” Physical Review Applied, Volume 3, Issue 6, Article Number 064010, June 17 2015
Bauchy, Mathieu; Qomi, Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini; Bichara, Christophe; et al. “Rigidity Transition in Materials: Hardness is Driven by Weak Atomic Constraints” Physical Review Letters, Volume 114, Issue 12, Article Number 125502, March 23, 2015
Krakowiak, Konrad J.; Thomas, Jeffrey J.; Muss, Simone; et al. “Nano-chemo-mechanical signature of conventional oil-well cement systems: Effects of elevated temperature and curing time” Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 67, Pages 103-121, January 2015
Krakowiak, Konrad J.; Wilson, William; James, Simon; et al. “Inference of the phase-to-mechanical property link via coupled X-ray spectrometry and indentation analysis: Application to cement-based materials” Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 67, Pages 271-285, January 2015
Short, M., and Yip, Y., Materials aging at the mesoscale: Kinetics of thermal, stress, radiation activations, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 19 (2015) 245–252
Pinson, M., et al., Hysteresis from Multiscale Porosity: Modeling Water Sorption and Shrinkage in Cement Paste, Physical Review Applied, American Physical Society, 3, 064009 (2015)
Laubie, Hadrien; Ulm, Franz-Josef “Plane-Strain Crack Problem in Transversely Isotropic Solids for Hydraulic Fracturing Applications” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Volume 140, Issue 12, Article number 04014092, December 2014

Del Gado, E.; Ioannidou, K.; Masoero, E.; et al. “A soft matter in construction - Statistical physics approach to formation and mechanics of C-S-H gels in cement” European Physical Journal-Special Topics, Volume 223, Issue 11, Pages 2285-2295, October 2014
Hoover, Christian G.; Ulm, Franz-Josef “Experimental chemo-mechanics of early-age fracture properties of cement paste” Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 75, Pages 42-52, September 2014
Laubie, Hadrien; Ulm, Franz-Josef “Irwin's conjecture: Crack shape adaptability in transversely isotropic solids” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 68, Pages 1-13, August 2014
Akono, Ange-Therese; Ulm, Franz-Josef; Bazant, Zdenek P. “Discussion: Strength-to-fracture scaling in scratching” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 119, Pages 21-28, March 2014
Abdolhosseini Qomi MJ, Krakowiak KJ, Bauchy M., Stewart KL, Shahsavari R, Jagannathan D, Brommer DB, Baronnet A, Buehler MJ, Yip S, Ulm FJ, Van Vliet KJ & Pellenq RJM, Combinatorial molecular optimization of cement hydrates, Nature Communications, 2014
Bauchy, M; Qomi Abdolhosseini, MJ; Bichara, C; Ulm, FJ; Pellenq, RJM, Nanoscale Structure of Cement: Viewpoint of Rigidity Theory, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Volume 118, Issue 23, Pages 12485-12493, 2014
Bauchy, M; Qomi, Abdolhosseini Qomi, MJ ; Ulm, FJ; Pellenq, RJM, Order and disorder in calcium-silicate-hydrate, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 140, Issue 21, Article Number 214503, 2014
Hantal, G; Brochard, L; Laubie, H; Ebrahimi, D; Pellenq, RJM; Ulm, FJ; Coasne, B, Atomic-scale modelling of elastic and failure properties of clays, Molecular Physics, Volume 112, Issue 9-10, Pages 1294-1305, 2014
Akono, AT; Ulm, FJ, An improved technique for characterizing the fracture toughness via scratch test experiments, Wear, Volume 313, Issue 1-2, Pages 117-124, 2014
Musso, S; Robisson, A; Maheshwar, S; Ulm, FJ, Stimuli-Responsive Cement-Reinforced Rubber, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 6962-6968, 2014
Carrier, B; Vandamme, M; Pellenq, RJM; Van Damme, H, Elastic Properties of Swelling Clay Particles at Finite Temperature upon Hydration, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Volume 118, Issue 17, Pages 8933-8943, 2014
Ebrahimi, D; Whittle, AJ; Pellenq, RJM, Mesoscale properties of clay aggregates from potential of mean force representation of interactions between nanoplatelets, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 140, Issue 15, Article Number 154309, 2014
Qomi, MJA; Bauchy, M; Ulm, FJ; Pellenq, RJM, Anomalous composition-dependent dynamics of nanoconfined water in the interlayer of disordered calcium-silicates, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 140, Issue 5, Article Number 054515, 2014
Ulm, FJ; Abuhaikal, M; Petersen, T; Pellenq, RJM, Poro-chemo-fracture-mechanics ... bottom-up: Application to risk of fracture design of oil and gas cement sheath at early ages, Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures, Volume 1, Pages 61-71, 2014
Masoero, E; Jennings, HM; Ulm, FJ; Del Gado, E; Manzano, H; Pellenq, RJM; Yip, S, Modelling cement at fundamental scales: From atoms to engineering strength and durability, Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures, Volume 1, Pages 139-148, 2014
Bauchy, M; Abdolhosseini Qomi MJ; Pellenq, RJM; Ulm, FJ, Is cement a glassy material?, Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures, Volume 1, Pages 169-176, 2014
Youssef, M; Pellenq, RJM; Yildiz, B, Docking Sr-90 radionuclide in cement: An atomistic modeling study, Physics and Chemistry of Earth, Volume 70-71, Pages 39-44, 2014
Masoero, E; Del Gado, E; Pellenq, RJM; Yip, S; Ulm, FJ, Nano-scale mechanics of colloidal C-S-H gels, Soft Matter, Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 491-499, 2014
Wilson, W; Krakowiak, KJ; Ulm, FJ, Simultaneous assessment of phase chemistry, phase abundance and bulk chemistry with statistical electron probe micro-analyses: Application to cement clinkers, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 55, Pages 35-48, 2013
Ardakani, SM; Ulm, FJ, Chemoelastic Fracture Mechanics Model for Cement Sheath Integrity, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Volume 140, Issue 4, Article Number: 04013009, 2013
Masoero, E; Thomas, JJ; Jennings, HM, A Reaction Zone Hypothesis for the Effects of Particle Size and Water- to Cement Ratio on the Early Hydration Kinetics of C3S, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 967-975, 2013
Vandamme, M.; Ulm, F.J., Nanoindentation investigation of creep properties of calcium silicate hydrates, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 52, Pages 38-52, 2013
Ioannidou, K; Pellenq, RJM; Del Gado, E, Controlling local packing and growth in calcium-silicate-hydrate gels, Soft Matter, Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 1121-1133, 2013
Robisson, A.; Maheshwari, S.; Musso, S.; Thomas, J.J.; Auzerais, F.M.; Han, D.Z.; Qu, M.; Ulm, F.J., Reactive elastomeric composites: When rubber meets cement, Composites Science and Technology, Volume 75, Pages 77-83, 2013
Manzano, H.; Masoero, E.; Lopez-Arbeloa, I.; Jennings, H.M., Shear deformations in calcium silicate hydrates, Soft Matter, Volume 9, Issue 30, Pages 7333-7341, 2013
Fan Y., Bilge Y., and Yip, S., Analogy between glass rheology and crystal plasticity: yielding at high strain rate, Soft Matter, Volume 9, 9511, 2013
Bonnaud, P.A.; Ji, Q.; Van Vliet, K.J., Effects of elevated temperature on the structure and properties of calcium-silicate-hydrate gels: the role of confined water, Soft Matter, Volume 9, Issue 28, Pages 6418, 2013
Short, M. and Yip, S., Multiscale materials modelling at the mesoscale, Nature Materials, Volume 12, September 2013
Ebrahimi, D; Pellenq, RJM; Whittle, AJ, Nanoscale Elastic Properties of Montmorillonite upon Water Adsorption, Langmuir, Volume 28, Issue 49, Pages 16855-16863, 2012
Masoero, E; Del Gado, E; Pellenq, RJM; Ulm, FJ; Yip, S, Nanostructure and Nanomechanics of Cement: Polydisperse Colloidal Packing, Physical Review Letters, Volume 109, Issue 15, Article Number 155503, 2012
Bazant, ZP; Bazant, MZ, Theory of sorption hysteresis in nanoporous solids: Part I Snap-through instabilities, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume, 60 Issue 9, Pages 1644-1659, 2012
Bazant, MZ; Bazant, ZP, Theory of sorption hysteresis in nanoporous solids: Part II Molecular condensation, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 60, Issue 9, Pages 1660-1675, 2012
Bonnaud, PA; Ji, Q; Coasne, B; Pellenq, RJM; Van Vliet, KJ, Thermodynamics of Water Confined in Porous Calcium-Silicate-Hydrates, Langmuir, Volume 28, Issue 31, Pages 11422-11432, 2012
Ulm, FJ, Concrete Innovation Potential: From Atoms to Green Infrastructure, Beton- Und Stahlbetonbau, Volume 107, Issue 8, Pages 504-509, 2012
Thomas, JJ; Allen, AJ; Jennings, HM, Density and water content of nanoscale solid C-S-H formed in alkali-activated slag (AAS) paste and implications for chemical shrinkage, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 377-383, 2012
O'Neil, EF; Shen, WG; Jennings, HM; Thomas, JJ; Cummins, T, Development of Frangible Concrete to Reduce Blast-Related Casualties, ACI Materials Journal, Volume 109, Issue 1, Pages 31-40, 2012

2009-2012

General Scope

VanVliet K., Pellenq R.J.-M., Buehler M., Grossmann J., Jennings H., Ulm F.J., Yip S., Set in Stone: Transforming Concrete into a Sustainable Infrastructure Material, review paper, Material Research Bulletin, Volume: 47, Issue: 4, Pages 395-402, 2012.
Jennings H.M., Bullard J.W., Cement and Concrete Research, From Electrons to Infrastructure: Engineering Concrete from the Bottom Up, Volume: 41, Issue: 7 Special Issue: SI Pages 727-735, 2011.

Dissolution / Surface Reactivity

Durgun E., Manzano H., Pellenq R.J.-M., Grossman J., Understanding and Controlling the Reactivity of the Calcium Silicate Phases from First Principles, Chemistry of Materials, Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 1262-1267, 2012.
Manzano H., Pellenq, R.J-M., Ulm F.J., Buehler M.J., van Duin A.C.T.), Hydration of Calcium Oxide Surface Predicted by Reactive Force Field Molecular Dynamics, Langmuir,Volume: 28, Issue: 9, Pages: 4187-4197, 2012.
Manzano H., Durgun E., Abdolhosseine Qomi M.J., Grossmann J., Pellenq R. J.-M., Impact of Chemical Impurities on the Crystalline Cement Clinker Phases Determined by Atomistic Simulations, Crystal and Growth Design, Volume 11, Pages 2964−2972, 2011.

Hydration, Setting

Bullard J.W., Jennings H.M., Livingston R.A.; et al., Mechanisms of Cement Hydration, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 41, Issue 12, Special Issue: SI, Pages 1208-1223, 2011.
Thomas J.J., Allen A.J., Jennings H.M., J. Hydration Kinetics and Microstructure Development of Normal and CaCl2-Accelerated Tricalcium Silicate Pastes, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Volume 113, Issue 46, Pages 19836-19844, 2009.

Hardened Paste

Manzano H., Moeini S., Marinelli F., Van Duin A., Ulm F.J., Pellenq R.J.-M., Confined Water Dissociation in Microporous Defective Silicates: Mechanism, Dipole Distribution, and Impact on Substrate Properties, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 134, Issue 4, Pages 2208-2215, 2012.
Abdolhosseini Qomi M.J., Ulm F.J. and Pellenq R.J.-M., Evidence on the Dual Nature of Aluminum in the Calcium-Silicate-Hydrates Based on Atomistic Simulations, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 95, Issue 3, Pages 1128-1137, 2012.
Ulm F.-J., Nano-Engineering of Concrete, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 481-488, 2012.
Akono A.-T., Ulm F.-J, Fracture Scaling Relations for Scratch Tests of Axisymmetric Shape, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 379-390, 2012.
Bard R., Ulm F.-J., Scratch Hardness-strength Solutions for Cohesive-Frictional Materials, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 307-326, 2012.
Akono A.-T., Randall N.X.; Ulm F.-J., Experimental Determination of the Fracture Toughness Via Microscratch Tests: Application to Polymers, Ceramics, and Metals, Journal of Materials Research, Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 485-493, 2012.
Brochard L., Vandamme M., Pellenq R.J.-M., Poromechanics of Microporous Media, Journal of the Mechanics of Physics and Solids, Volume 60, Issue 4, Pages 606-622, 2012.
Brochard L., Vandamme M., Pellenq R.J-M., Fen−Chong T., Adsorption Induced Deformation of Microporous Materials, Langmuir, Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 2659–2670, 2012.
Ulm F.-J., Simon J., The Scratch Test for Strength and Fracture Toughness Determination of Oil Well Cements Cured at High Temperature and Pressure, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 41 Issue 9, Pages 942-946, 2011.
Akono A-T., Reis P.M., Ulm F-J., Scratching As a Fracture Process: From Butter to Steel, Physical Review Letters, Volume 106, Issue 20, 2011.
Akono A.-T., Ulm F-J., Scratch Test Model for the Determination of Fracture Toughness, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 78, Issue 2, Pages 334-342, 2011.
Ji Q., Pellenq R.J.-M., Van Vliet K., Comparison of Computational Water Model for Simulation of Calcium−Silicate−Hydrate, Computational Material Science, Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 234−240, 2011.
Youssef M., Pellenq R.J.-M., Yildiz B., The Glassy Nature of Water in an Ultra-confining Disordered Material: The Case of Calcium Silicate Hydrate, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 133, Issue 8, Pages 2499–2510, 2011.
Shahsavari R., Pellenq R.J.-M., Ulm F.-J., Empirical Force Fields for Complex Hydratred Calcio-silicate Layered Materials, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 1002-1011, 2011.
Ulm F.-J., Pellenq R.J.-M., Vandamme M., C-crete: From Atoms to Concrete Structures, Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures, Bicanic et al eds., Taylor and Francis Pub., Pages 69-74, 2010.
Ulm F.-J., Akono A.-T., Pellenq R.J.-M., Fracture Toughness BottomUp: Experiments and Simulations, MPPS 2011, Symposium on Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids: A Tribute to Pr. Olivier Coussy, HAL-INRIA open archive, 2011.
Brochard L., Nikoosokhan S., Vandamme M., Dangla P., Pellenq R.J.-M., Fen-Chong T., Adsorption and Strain, MPPS 2011, Symposium on Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids, HAL-INRIA open archive, 2011.
Ficker T., Martisek D., Jennings H.M., Roughness of Fracture Surfaces and Compressive Strength of Hydrated Cement Pastes, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 947-955, 2010.
Fonseca P.C., Jennings H.M., The Effect of Drying on Early-age Morphology of C-S-H as Observed in Environmental SEM, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 40, Issue 12, Pages 1673-1680, 2010.
Chen J.J., Sorelli L., Vandamme M. et al., A Coupled Nanoindentation/SEM-EDS Study on Low Water/Cement Ratio Portland Cement Paste: Evidence for CS-H/Ca(OH)(2) Nanocomposites, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 93, Issue 5, Pages 1484-1493, 2010.
Vandamme M., Ulm F.-J., Fonollosa P., Nanogranular Packing of C-S-H at Substochiometric Conditions, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 14-26, 2010.
Ulm F.-J., Vandamme M., Jennings H.M. et al., Does Microstructure Matter for Statistical Nanoindentation Techniques? Cement and Concrete Composites, Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 92-99, 2010.
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