@phdthesis{Mueller,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Matthias},
  title     = {Salt-frost Attack on Concrete - New Findings regarding the Damage Mechanism},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4868},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230103-48681},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {The reduction of the cement clinker content is an important prerequisite for the improvement of the CO2-footprint of concrete. Nevertheless, the durability of such concretes must be sufficient to guarantee a satisfactory service life of structures. Salt frost scaling resistance is a critical factor in this regard, as it is often diminished at increased clinker substitution rates. Furthermore, only insufficient long-term experience for such concretes exists. A high salt frost scaling resistance thus cannot be achieved by applying only descriptive criteria, such as the concrete composition. It is therefore to be expected, that in the long term a performance based service life prediction will replace the descriptive concept. To achieve the important goal of clinker reduction for concretes also in cold and temperate climates it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms for salt frost scaling. However, conflicting damage theories dominate the current State of the Art. It was consequently derived as the goal of this thesis to evaluate existing damage theories and to examine them experimentally. It was found that only two theories have the potential to describe the salt frost attack satisfactorily - the glue spall theory and the cryogenic suction theory. The glue spall theory attributes the surface scaling to the interaction of an external ice layer with the concrete surface. Only when moderate amounts of deicing salt are present in the test solution the resulting mechanical properties of the ice can cause scaling. However, the results in this thesis indicate that severe scaling also occurs at deicing salt levels, at which the ice is much too soft to damage concrete. Thus, the inability of the glue spall theory to account for all aspects of salt frost scaling was shown. The cryogenic suction theory is based on the eutectic behavior of salt solutions, which consist of two phases - water ice and liquid brine - between the freezing point and the eutectic temperature. The liquid brine acts as an additional moisture reservoir, which facilitates the growth of ice lenses in the surface layer of the concrete. The experiments in this thesis confirmed, that the ice formation in hardened cement paste increases due to the suction of brine at sub-zero temperatures. The extent of additional ice formation was influenced mainly by the porosity and by the chloride binding capacity of the hardened cement paste. Consequently, the cryogenic suction theory plausibly describes the actual generation of scaling, but it has to be expanded by some crucial aspects to represent the salt frost scaling attack completely. The most important aspect is the intensive saturation process, which is ascribed to the so-called micro ice lens pump. Therefore a combined damage theory was proposed, which considers multiple saturation processes. Important aspects of this combined theory were confirmed experimentally. As a result, the combined damage theory constitutes a good basis to understand the salt frost scaling attack on concrete on a fundamental level. Furthermore, a new approach was identified, to account for the reduced salt frost scaling resistance of concretes with reduced clinker content.},
  subject      = {Beton},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Hanna,
  author    = {Hanna, John},
  title     = {Computational Fracture Modeling and Design of Encapsulation-Based Self-Healing Concrete Using XFEM and Cohesive Surface Technique},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4746},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20221124-47467},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {125},
  abstract  = {Encapsulation-based self-healing concrete (SHC) is the most promising technique for providing a self-healing mechanism to concrete. This is due to its capacity to heal fractures effectively without human interventions, extending the operational life and lowering maintenance costs. The healing mechanism is created by embedding capsules containing the healing agent inside the concrete. The healing agent will be released once the capsules are fractured and the healing occurs in the vicinity of the damaged part. The healing efficiency of the SHC is still not clear and depends on several factors; in the case of microcapsules SHC the fracture of microcapsules is the most important aspect to release the healing agents and hence heal the cracks. This study contributes to verifying the healing efficiency of SHC and the fracture mechanism of the microcapsules. Extended finite element method (XFEM) is a flexible, and powerful discrete crack method that allows crack propagation without the requirement for re-meshing and has been shown high accuracy for modeling fracture in concrete. In this thesis, a computational fracture modeling approach of Encapsulation-based SHC is proposed based on the XFEM and cohesive surface technique (CS) to study the healing efficiency and the potential of fracture and debonding of the microcapsules or the solidified healing agents from the concrete matrix as well. The concrete matrix and a microcapsule shell both are modeled by the XFEM and combined together by CS. The effects of the healed-crack length, the interfacial fracture properties, and microcapsule size on the load carrying capability and fracture pattern of the SHC have been studied. The obtained results are compared to those obtained from the zero thickness cohesive element approach to demonstrate the significant accuracy and the validity of the proposed simulation. The present fracture simulation is developed to study the influence of the capsular clustering on the fracture mechanism by varying the contact surface area of the CS between the microcapsule shell and the concrete matrix. The proposed fracture simulation is expanded to 3D simulations to validate the 2D computational simulations and to estimate the accuracy difference ratio between 2D and 3D simulations. In addition, a proposed design method is developed to design the size of the microcapsules consideration of a sufficient volume of healing agent to heal the expected crack width. This method is based on the configuration of the unit cell (UC), Representative Volume Element (RVE), Periodic Boundary Conditions (PBC), and associated them to the volume fraction (Vf) and the crack width as variables. The proposed microcapsule design is verified through computational fracture simulations.},
  subject      = {Beton},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Tatarin,
  author    = {Tatarin, Ren{\´e}},
  title     = {Charakterisieren struktureller Ver{\"a}nderungen in zementgebundenen Baustoffen durch akustische zerst{\"o}rungsfreie Pr{\"u}fverfahren},
  publisher = {Cuvillier Verlag},
  address   = {G{\"o}ttingen},
  isbn      = {978-3-7369-7575-0},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4592},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220215-45920},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {293},
  abstract  = {Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird das Charakterisieren struktureller Ver{\"a}nderungen zementgebundener Baustoffe durch zwei auf dem Ultraschall-Transmissionsverfahren beruhenden Methoden der zerst{\"o}rungsfreien Pr{\"u}fung (ZfP) mit mechanischen Wellen vorgenommen. Zur kontinuierlichen Charakterisierung der Erstarrung und Erh{\"a}rtung frischer zementgebundener Systeme wird ein auf Ultraschallsensoren f{\"u}r Longitudinal- und Scherwellen basierendes Messsystem in Kombination mit zugeh{\"o}rigen Verfahrensweisen zur Datenauswertung konzipiert, charakterisiert und angewandt. Gegen{\"u}ber der bislang {\"u}blichen alleinigen Bewertung der Verfestigung anhand indirekter Ultraschallparameter wie Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit, Signalenergie oder Frequenzgehalt der Longitudinalwelle l{\"a}sst sich damit eine direkte, sensible Erfassung der sich w{\"a}hrend der Strukturbildung entwickelnden dynamischen elastischen Eigenschaften auf der Basis prim{\"a}rer physikalischer Werkstoffparameter erreichen. Insbesondere Scherwellen und der dynamische Schubmodul sind geeignet, den graduellen {\"U}bergang zum Festk{\"o}rper mit {\"U}berschreiten der Perkolationsschwelle sensibel und unabh{\"a}ngig vom Luftgehalt zu erfassen. Die zeitliche Entwicklung der dynamischen elastischen Eigenschaften, die Strukturbildungsraten sowie die daraus extrahierten diskreten Ergebnisparameter erm{\"o}glichen eine vergleichende quantitative Charakterisierung der Strukturbildung zementgebundener Baustoffe aus mechanischer Sicht. Dabei lassen sich typische, oft unvermeidbare Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung der Versuchsmischungen ber{\"u}cksichtigen. Der Einsatz laserbasierter Methoden zur Anregung und Erfassung von mechanischen Wellen und deren Kombination zu Laser-Ultraschall zielt darauf ab, die mit der Anwendung des konventionellen Ultraschall-Transmissionsverfahrens verbundenen Nachteile zu eliminieren. Diese resultieren aus der Sensorgeometrie, der mechanischen Ankopplung und bei einer Vielzahl von Oberfl{\"a}chenpunkten aus einem hohen pr{\"u}ftechnischen Aufwand. Die laserbasierte, interferometrische Erfassung mechanischer Wellen ist gegen{\"u}ber Ultraschallsensoren rauschbehaftet und vergleichsweise unsensibel. Als wesentliche Voraussetzung der scannenden Anwendung von Laser-Ultraschall auf zementgebundene Baustoffe erfolgen systematische experimentelle Untersuchungen zur laserinduzierten ablativen Anregung. Diese sollen zum Verst{\"a}ndnis des Anregungsmechanismus unmittelbar auf den Oberfl{\"a}chen von zementgebundenen Baustoffen, Gesteinsk{\"o}rnungen und metallischen Werkstoffen beitragen, relevante Einflussfaktoren aus den charakteristischen Materialeigenschaften identifizieren, geeignete Prozessparameter gewinnen und die Verfahrensgrenzen aufzeigen. Unter Einsatz von Longitudinalwellen erfolgt die Anwendung von Laser-Ultraschall zur zeit- und ortsaufgel{\"o}sten Charakterisierung der Strukturbildung und Homogenit{\"a}t frischer sowie erh{\"a}rteter Proben zementgebundener Baustoffe. W{\"a}hrend der Strukturbildung wird erstmals eine simultane ber{\"u}hrungslose Erfassung von Longitudinal- und Scherwellen vorgenommen. Unter Anwendung von tomographischen Methoden (2D-Laufzeit¬tomo¬graphie) werden {\"u}berlagerungsfreie Informationen zur r{\"a}umlichen Verteilung struktureller Gef{\"u}gever{\"a}nderungen anhand der longitudinalen Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit bzw. des relativen dynamischen Elastizit{\"a}tsmoduls innerhalb von virtuellen Schnittebenen gesch{\"a}digter Probek{\"o}rper gewonnen. Als beton-sch{\"a}digende Mechanismen werden exemplarisch der kombinierte Frost-Tausalz-Angriff sowie die Alkali-Kiesels{\"a}ure-Reaktion (AKR) herangezogen. Die im Rahmen dieser Arbeit entwickelten Verfahren der zerst{\"o}rungsfreien Pr{\"u}fung bieten erweiterte M{\"o}glichkeiten zur Charakterisierung zementgebundener Baustoffe und deren strukturellen Ver{\"a}nderungen und lassen sich zielgerichtet in der Werkstoffentwicklung, bei der Qualit{\"a}tssicherung sowie zur Analyse von Schadensprozessen und -ursachen einsetzen.},
  subject      = {Beton},
  language  = {de}
}