3 papers
physics.geo-ph2018
Branching of Hydraulic Cracks in Gas or Oil Shale with Closed Natural Fractures: How to Master Permeability
Saeed Rahimi-Agham, Viet-Tuan Chau, Huynjin Lee +7
While the hydraulic fracturing technology, aka fracking (or fraccing, frac), has become highly developed and astonishingly successful, a consistent formulation of the associated fr…
physics.geo-ph2018
Statistical Extraction of Useful Concrete Creep Data from Imperfect Customary Tests
Mohammad Rasoolinejad, Saeed Rahimi-Aghdam, Zdenek P. Bazant
The reporting and evaluation of creep tests of concrete is complicated by the fact that creep is significant even for the shortest observable load durations. Compared to the strain…
physics.app-ph2018
Extended Microprestress-Solidification Theory (XMPS) for Long-Term Creep and Diffusion Size Effect in Concrete at Variable Environment
Saeed Rahimi-Aghdam, Zdenek P. Bazant, Gianluca Cusatis
The solidification theory has been accepted as a thermodynamically sound way to describe the creep reduction due to deposition of hydrated material in the pores of concrete. The co…