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Publications from Surendra Shah

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1. Crack Free Concrete Made With Nanofiber Reinforcement
2. Ultrasonic Technique for in-Situ monitoring of the setting, hardening, and strength gain of concrete
3. Design and Application of Low Compaction Energy Concrete for Use in Slip-Form Concrete Paving

Crack Free Concrete Made with Nanofiber Reinforcement
(60022749)

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2011 Crack Free Concrete Made with Nanofiber Reinforcement (Year 3 Final Report) Z.S. Metaxa, M.S. Konsta-Gdoutos, and S.P. Shah PDF
2009 Nanoscale modification of cementitious materials. In Nanotechnology in construction 3. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Nanotechnology in construction S.P. Shah, M.S. Konsta-Gdoutos, Z.S. Metaxa and P. Mondal PDF
2008 Nanoimaging of highly dispersed carbon nanotube reinforced cement based materials. In Proceedings of the Seventh International RILEM Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Concrete: Design and Applications. Gettu R, editor, RILEM Publications S.A.R.L., 125-131 M.S. Konsta-Gdoutos, Z.S. Metaxa and S.P. Shah PDF

 

Design and Application of Low Compaction Energy Concrete for Use in Slip-Form Concrete Paving
(A215, A229, 60020785)

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2011 Design and Application of Low Compaction Energy Concrete for Use in Slip-Form Concrete Paving (Year 3 Final Report) S.P. Shah PDF
2008 Next horizon in high performance concrete: Self-consolidating concrete and nanotechnology. The Indian Concrete Journal, 82(1):9–21. Shah, S., Mondal, P., Ferron, R., Tregger, N., and Sun., Z. N/A
2007 Empirical relationships between viscosity and flow-time measurements from minislump tests for cement pastes formulated from SCC. In Proc., 5th International RILEM Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete, Ghent, Belgium. Tregger, N., Ferrara, L., and Shah, S. PDF
  Design and Application of Low Compaction Energy Concrete for Use in Slip-Form Concrete Paving (TEA-21 Year 8 Final Report)   PDF
2007 Low compaction energy concrete for improved slipform casting of concrete pavements. ACI Materials Journal, 104(3):251–258 Surendra Shah N/A
2007 Improving the slipform process via material manipulation. In ACM 2007 Proceedings, Surendra Shah N/A
2006 Optimization of Self-Consolidating Concrete for Slip-form pavement Jean-Juste Mbele PDF

 

Ultrasonic Technique for in-Situ monitoring
of the setting, hardening, and strength gain
of concrete
(A432, A441, A477, A496)

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  Ultrasonic Technique for In-Situ Monitoring of the Setting, Hardening, and Strength Gain of Concrete (TEA-21 Years 1-6 Final Report)   PDF
2006 Using the shear wave reflection method for advanced testing of early age cement-based materials. Proc. Symposium on Advanced Testing of Fresh Cementitious Materials, Stuttgart, Germany, (on CD-ROM). Voigt, T., Shah, S.P. N/A
2006 Investigation of the viscoelastic properties of fresh Portland cement pastes with an ultrasonic wave reflection method. Measuring, Monitoring and Modeling Concrete Properties: In Honor of Surendra P. Shah, Alexandroupolis, Greece. Sun, Z. and Shah, S.P. N/A
2006 Comparison of the ultrasonic wave reflection method and maturity method in evaluating the early-age compressive strength of mortar. Cement and Concrete Composites, 28 (4), 307-316. Voigt, T., Sun, Z., Shah, S. N/A
2006 Rheometric and ultrasonic investigations of viscoelastic properties of fresh Portland cement pastes. Cement and Concrete Research, 36 (2), 278-287. Sun, Z., Voigt, T., Shah, S.P. N/A
2005 Early Age Microstructure of Portland cement mortar investigated by ultrasonic shear waves and numerical simulation. Cement and Concrete Research, 35 (5), 858-866. Voigt, T., Ye, G., Sun, Z., Shah, S.P., van Breugel, K. N/A
2005 Temperature effects on the strength evaluation of cement-based materials with an ultrasonic wave reflection technique. ACI Materials Journal, 102 (4), 272-278. Sun, Z., Voigt, T., Shah, S.P. N/A
2005 Comparison of ultrasonic wave transmission and reflection measurements with P- and S-waves on early age mortar and concrete. Materials and Structures, 38, (282), 729-738. Voigt, T., Grosse, C.U., Sun, Z., Shah, S.P., Reinhardt, H.W. N/A
2005 Modeling the linear elastic properties of Portland cement paste. Cement and Concrete Research, 35 (10), 1948-1960. Haecker, C., Garboczi, E., Bullard, J., Bohn, R., Sun, Z., Shah, S., Voigt, T. N/A
2005 Microstructure and early age properties of Portland cement pastes-effects of the connectivity of the solid phases. ACI Material Journal, 102, 122-129. Sun, Z., Ye, G. and Shah, S.P. N/A
2005 Monitoring the early-age properties of cementitious materials with ultrasonic wave reflection method at macro and micro-structural levels. Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Sun, Z. PDF
2005 The application of an ultrasonic shear wave reflection method for nondestructive testing of cement-based materials at early ages: an experimental and numerical analysis. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leipzig, Germany. Voigt, T. PDF
2005 Monitoring cementitious materials during setting and hardening with an ultrasonic shear wave reflection method. Proc. International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting, Cape Town, South Africa, (on CD-ROM). Voigt, T., Sun, Z.., Shah, S.P. N/A
2005 New Trends in Concrete Technology. Proc. International Conference on Advances in Concrete Composites and Structures, Vol. 1, Chennai, India, pp. 3-10. Shah, S.P., Voigt, T. N/A
2005 Monitoring the setting and hardening of cement-based materials with ultrasonic wave reflection methods. RILEM Report 31: Advanced Testing of Cement-Based Materials During Setting and Hardening, eds. H.W. Reinhardt and C.U. Grosse, pp. 97 – 141. RILEM Publications SARL, Bagneux, France. Voigt, T., Subramaniam, K.V., Shah, S.P. N/A
2005 Simulation and Modeling. RILEM Report 31: Advanced Testing of Cement-Based Materials During Setting and Hardening, eds. H.W. Reinhardt and C.U. Grosse, pp. 311 - 335. RILEM Publications SARL, Bagneux, France. Van Breugel, K., Koenders, E.A.B., Shah, S.P., Sun, Z., Voigt, T., Ye, G. N/A
2004 "Microstructural Aspects of Cement Hydration - Ultrasonic Waves and Numerical Simulations", 5th International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering, June 16-19, 2004, Delft, The Netherlands", Walraven, Blaauwendraad, Scarpas & Snijder (Eds.), Taylor & Francis, 2004, pp. 1-9. Zhihui Sun, Guang Ye, Thomas Voigt, Surendra P. Shah, Klaas van Breugel PDF
2004 "Health Monitoring of Early Age Concrete", 4th International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions: Environment and Loading, Seoul, Korea. Thomas Voigt, Zhihui Sun, Surendra P. Shah

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2004 "Early Age Properties of Portland Cement Pastes Investigated with Ultrasonic Shear Waves and Numerical Simulation", preprint published in RILEM International Symposium of Advances in Concrete through Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL. Zhihui Sun, Guang Ye, Thomas Voigt, Surendra P. Shah, Klaas van Breugel PDF
2004 "A Micromechanical Model for Characterization of Cement Paste at Early Age Validated with Experiments", International Symposium: Advances in Concrete through Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL Guang Ye, Zhihui Sun, Thomas Voigt, Surendra P. Shah, Klaas van Breugel

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2003 "A Better Maturity Meter?"  ACBM Update, Concrete International, 25:10, 98-99, October 2003 (reprinted with permission from the American Concrete Institute, www.concrete.org) Surendra P. Shah, Thomas Voigt PDF
2003 "Determination of Early Age Mortar and Concrete Strength by Ultrasonic Wave Reflections." ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol.15, No.3, pp. 247-254 Thomas Voigt, Y. Akkaya, Surendra P. Shah

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2003 "Nondestructive Measurement of Concrete Strength Gain by an Ultrasonic Wave Reflection Method", Materials and Structures, October 2003 Yilmaz Akkaya, Thomas Voigt, K. V. Subramaniam, Surendra P. Shah PDF
2003 "Nondestructive Monitoring of Setting and Hardening of Portland Cement Mortar with Sonic Methods", Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering (NDT-CE 2003), Berlin, Germany. Thomas Voigt, Surendra P. Shah PDF
2002 "Nondestructive Testing of Early Age Concrete. Cementing the Future", Newsletter of the Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials, Winter 2002-2003, 14(1), 4-5  (reprinted with permission) Thomas Voigt, Surendra P. Shah PDF
1995 "Early Detection of Steel Rebar Corrosion by Acoustic Emission Monitoring" Alan Zdunek, David W. Prine, Zongjin Li, Eric Landis, Surendra P. Shah PDF