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Experimental Microporomechanics

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Book cover Applied Micromechanics of Porous Materials

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Is it possible to break down natural porous material systems down to a scale where materials no longer change from one material to another, and upscale (‘nanoengineer’) the behavior from the nanoscale to the macroscale of engineering applications? — This is the challenging question we address in these lecture notes through a review of tools and methods of experimental microporomechanics. The combination of advanced experimental indentation techniques and microporomechanics theory provides a unique opportunity to understand and assess nanoproperties and microstructure, as a new basis for the engineering prediction of macroscopic poromechanical properties of natural composites. This is illustrated for cement-based materials and shales.

In Collaboration with Prof. Y. Abousleiman (Oklahoma University at Norman): Dr. Paul Acker and Jean-Francois Batoz (Lafarge Corp.), Drs. R. Ewy, L. Duranti, D. K. McCarty (Chevron Texaco); and the support of Nanolab@MIT team, A. Schwartzman and Prof. K. Van Vliet. Financial support by the Lafarge Corporation and Chevron Texaco is gratefully acknowledged.

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Ulm, FJ., Delafargue, A., Constantinides, G. (2005). Experimental Microporomechanics. In: Dormieux, L., Ulm, FJ. (eds) Applied Micromechanics of Porous Materials. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 480. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-211-38046-9_7

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