CEE 8813B Materials Science of Concrete

Instructor: Dr. Kimberly Kurtis
 Class Meeting Times: M, W 12-1:30 in 298 Mason
Office Hours:M,W 2-3, plus open door

ONLINE COURSE INFORMATION
  • Course Syllabus
  • Revised course outline (tentative)
  • Guidelines for Technical Reviews
  • Tech library resources
  • Lecture and Lecture Notes Guidelines

    • ADDITIONAL COURSE MATERIALS
  • Course introduction
  • History of Cement-based Materials
  • Manufacture of Cement including cement hydration
  • Tests on Portland Cement including specifications
  • Portland Cement Hydration
  • Structure of the Hydrated Cement Paste
  • SCMs
  • Microscopy of cement-based materials: Overview
  • Specialty Cements
  • Chemical Admixtures (zipped)
  • Aggregate
  • ACI Mix Design
  • Early Age Concrete Properties
  • Hardened Concrete Properties
  • Stress-strain Behavior
  • Dimensional Stability
  • Thermal Effects
  • Durability

    GUEST LECTURES
  • Freeze/thaw by R. Kmack
  • Self-consolidating concrete by F. Kim
  • Mass concrete by R. Moser
  • Curling by Q. Watkins
  • High volume fly ash concrete by W. Haynes
  • Metakaolin by L. McCormick
  • Natural fiber reinforced cement-based materials by B. Davis
  • Ultra high performance concrete by V. Garas
  • Particle packing in UHPC by K. Crane
  • Concrete biodeterioration by J. Kurth
  • Degradation by deicing chemicals by A.R. Jayapalan/li>
    ONLINE RESOURCES
  • Materials "links" page
  • Three Dimensional Hydration Models developed by Dale Bentz and Edward Garboczi of NIST.
  • VCCTL (Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory) developed by NIST.
  • Concrete Microscopy Library maintained by David Lange and Paul Stutzman.


    • SAMPLE EXAMS

  • Sample Exam Questions
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