NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF CONCRETE FLOW: THE RILEM STATE OF THE ART REPORT

Author(s): Nicolas Roussel
Paper category: Proceeding
Book title: Design, Performance and Use of Self-Consolidating Concrete
Editor(s): Caijun Shi, Zhihua Ou and Kamal Henri Khayat
Print-ISBN: 978-2-35158-143-8
e-ISBN: 978-2-35158-144-5
Publisher: RILEM Publications SARL
Publication year: 2014
Pages: 24 - 30
Total Pages : 6
Language : English

Abstract: This paper presents the content of the RILEM state of the art report dealing with numerical simulations of concrete flow recently printed by SPRINGER. This report is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the various physical phenomena involved in flows of fresh cementitious materials. The aim of the second chapter is to give an overview of the work carried out on simulation of flow of cement-based materials using computational fluid dynamics. This includes governing equations, constitutive equations, analytical and numerical solutions, and examples showing simulations of testing, mixing and castings. The third chapter focuses on the application of Discrete Element Method in simulating the flow of fresh concrete. The fourth chapter is an introductory text about numerical errors both in CFD and DEM whereas the fifth and last chapter gives some recent examples of numerical simulations developed by various authors in order to simulate the presence of grains or fibers in a non-Newtonian cement matrix. This paper focuses on the first three chapters.

Online publication: 2017
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