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International RILEM Conference on Materials, Systems and Structures in Civil Engineering 

Conference segment on Service Life of Cement-Based Materials and Structures 

22-24 August 2016, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark 

 

dissolution-induced creep. Finally, simulation results show that our approach can predict 

various mesoscale mechanisms of HP formation and clarify how these affect the hydration 

rate. Overall, this is a first step in developing nanoscale simulations that can contribute to the 

challenge of understanding and controlling the formation, setting, and chemo-mechanical 

degradation of concrete. 

 

 

Acknowledgements  

 

The authors thank the TU1404 COST Action “Towards the next generation of standards for 

service life of cement-based materials and structures”, for supporting the presentation of this 

work at the MSSCE 2016 Conference. 

 

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