Publications related to Deicing

Nanoscale modelling of ionic transport in the porous C-S-H network

To reduce the CO2 footprint of construction materials, concrete producers blend their cement with Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs). SCMs such as fly ash or blast furnace slag are mostly the byproducts of other industries. And while SCMs are chos ...

EPFL2022

Fire performance evaluation of GFRP-balsa sandwich bridge decks

Niloufar Vahedi

Bridges are a critical component of national infrastructures and economies. A significant percentage of bridges built all around the world are made of reinforced concrete which according to building codes have a life span between 80-100 years. However, str ...

EPFL2022

Surface Reconstruction Engineering with Synergistic Effect of Mixed‐Salt Passivation Treatment toward Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Filippo de Angelis, Hui-Seon Kim, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo, Yeonju Kim

Surface passivation treatment is a widely used strategy to resolve trap-mediated nonradiative recombination toward high-efficiency metal-halide perovskite photovoltaics. However, a lack of passivation with mixture treatment has been investigated, as well a ...

2021

Concrete Performance of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) Compared with Conventional Cements

Karen Scrivener, Lionel Sofia, François Henri Avet

This study aims to demonstrate the robustness of concrete made of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3). Two campaigns were carried out using 375 kg.m(-3) and 500 kg.m(-3) of binder and targeting plastic and self-placing workability, respectively. The concr ...

AMER SOC TESTING MATERIALS2019

Full-waveform GPR inversion to assess chloride gradients in concrete

Eugen Brühwiler, Alexis Kalogeropoulos

The spreading of deicing salt on roads during winter and the consequent migration of chloride ions within concrete exposes structures reinforcement to corrosion. Reinforcement corrosion is problematic because it reduces the structure's load carrying capaci ...

Elsevier2013

Numerical study of the heating-cooling effects on the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Fabrice Dupray, Alice Di Donna

Energy geostructures represent a renewable and clean source of energy which can be used for heating and cooling of buildings and de-icing of infrastructures. This technology couples the structural role of geostructures with the energy supply, using the pri ...

Taylor & Francis Group2013

Heterogeneous Chemistry of Cl2O and HOCl on Frozen Natural Sea Salt, Recrystallized Sea Salt, KCl and NaCl Solutions at 200 and 215 K

Michel Rossi, Pascal Pratte

The HOCl heterogeneous reaction on frozen natural (NSS) and recrystallized (RSS) sea salt KCl and NaCl solutions was studied using a low pressure flow reactor in order to measure the uptake coefficient gamma and products of reaction The HOCl sample used in ...

Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, De Gruyter2010

Capillary suction and diffusion model for chloride ingress into concrete

Eugen Brühwiler, David Conciatori, Hamid Sadouki

A numerical approach, named TransChlor, is proposed to simulate transport phenomena of various substances in concrete. This approach is a theoretical model based on finite elements and finite differences methods. The model consists of coupled nonlinear par ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2008

Mécanismes d'action du TiO2 illuminé sur Escherichia Coli

Gaëtan Gogniat

The increase of bacterial resistance against various disinfection processes is a worrying phenomenon. As a consequence, the search for alternative techniques for fighting micro-organisms has become one of the major issues of these last few years. In this d ...

EPFL2006

Effet du microclimat sur l'initiation de la corrosion des aciers d'armature dans les ouvrages en béton armé

David Conciatori

The deterioration of reinforced concrete structures and the associated rehabilitation work represent an economic cost of premier importance. In Switzerland, the structural maintenance expenditures amount to 40% to 65% of the initial construction cost (over ...

EPFL2006

Capteur chimique à fibres optiques pour la mesure des ions chlore dans le béton à un stade précoce

Francine Laferrière

In the national and worldwide context, countless reinforced concrete structures are in an advanced state of deterioration. A principal cause of such degradation is chloride induced corrosion of reinforcement bars. This phenomenon is accentuated in countrie ...

EPFL2005

Salt Removal During Off-GelTM Electrophoresis of Protein Samples

Hubert Girault, Niels Erik Lion, Christophe Roussel

The Off-Gel™ technology was recently described for protein fractionation in a solution placed on top of an immobilized pH gradient gel. In addition, this process was found to remove salts from the biological samples to analyze. This desalting effect is stu ...

2005

Composite action of FRP bridge decks adhesively bonded to steel main girders

Herbert Gürtler

Up until today reinforced concrete has been used in most cases for the manufacturing of bridge decks. Depending on the quality of the work carried out, defects can already occur after only a few years. These defects mostly appear in the form of corrosion o ...

EPFL2005