@proceedings {330,
	title = {The Meso-Scale Texture of Cement Hydrate Gels: Out-of-Equilibrium Evolution and Thermodynamic Driving},
	journal = {10th International Conference on Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures CONCREEP 10},
	volume = {CONCREEP 10: MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF CREEP, SHRINKAGE, AND DURABILITY OF CONCRETE AND CONCRETE STRUCTURES},
	year = {2015},
	month = {Sep-17-2015},
	pages = {34-38},
	publisher = {American Society of Civil Engineers},
	address = {September 21{\textendash}23, 2015 Vienna, AustriaReston, VA},
	abstract = {<p>By the end of cement hydration calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) gels extends over tens and hundreds of nanometers. Their complex texture affects directly, and to a large extent, the macroscopic hygrothermal and mechanical behavior of cement. Here we review a statistical physics approach recently developed, which allows us to investigate the gel formation under the out-of-equilibrium conditions typical of cement hydration and the role of the nano-scale structure in C\&mdash;S\&mdash;H mechanics upon hardening. Our investigations have unveiled the role, in the C-S-H gels, of nano-scale structural and mechanical heterogeneities that develop due to the the far-from-equilibrium physico-chemical environment in which the material forms. A subtle interplay between the out-of-equilibrium evolution and the effective interactions emerging between the nano-scale units of the gels at different stages of the hydration process ultimately determines the mesoscale texture of cement hydrates and their material properties.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1061/978078447934610.1061/9780784479346.005},
	author = {Emanuela Del Gado and Katerina Ioannidou and Enrico Masoero and Roland Jean-Marc Pellenq and Franz-Josef Ulm and Sidney Yip},
	editor = {Hellmich, Christian and Pichler, Bernhard and Kollegger, Johann}
}
