Rheology of Fresh Cement-Based Materials: Fundamentals, Measurements, and Applications

This book introduces fundamentals, measurements, and applications of rheology of fresh cement-based materials. The rheology of a fresh cement-based material is one of its most important aspects, characterizing its flow and deformation, and governing the mixing, placement, and casting quality of a concrete.

This is the first book to bring the field together on an increasingly important topic, as new types of cement-based materials and new concrete technologies are developed. It describes measurement equipment, procedures, and data interpretation of the rheology of cement paste and concrete, as well as applications such as self-compacting concrete, pumping, and 3D printing. A range of other cement-based materials such as fiber-reinforced concrete, cemented paste backfills, and alkali-activated cement are also examined.

Rheology of Fresh Cement-Based Materials serves as a reference book for researchers and engineers, and a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Qiang Yuan is a professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Central South University, China. He is the author of Transport and Interactions of Chlorides in Cement-based Materials, also published by CRC Press.

Caijun Shi is a professor in the College of Civil Engineering at Hunan University, China. He is the author of Alkali-Activated and Concretes, and Transport and Interactions of Chlorides in Cement-based Materials, also published by CRC Press.

Dengwu Jiao is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Structural Engineering and Building Materials at Ghent University.