Publications by Emmanuel Denarié

Elastic limit tensile stress of UHPFRC: Method of determination and effect of fiber orientation

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Jian Zhan

This paper discusses the influence of fiber orientation on elastic limit tensile stress of ultra-high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites (UHPFRC). An original model relating elastic limit tensile stress to fiber orientation is proposed, a ...

2023

Influence of Fiber Orientation on the Elastic Limit Tensile Stress of UHPFRC

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Jian Zhan

The elastic limit tensile stress of UHPFRC is governed by contributions of the cementitious matrix and the fibrous skeleton. This paper finds that fiber orientation has significant influence on the matrix tensile strength of UHPFRC, while this is not consi ...

2023

Inverse Analysis of R-UHPFRC Beams to Determine the Flexural Response under Service Loading and at Ultimate Resistance

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Bartlomiej Wojciech Sawicki

Ultra high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites (UHPFRCs) have demonstrated their outstanding efficiency as structural materials. Determination of the bending resistance of members combining UHPFRC with steel reinforcement bars (R-UHPFRC) u ...

2022

A Review of the Use of UHPFRC in Bridge Rehabilitation and New Construction in Switzerland

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Philippe Schiltz, Numa Joy Bertola

Ultra-High-Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC) provides solutions to enhance existing structures and design innovative new structures. Structural UHPFRC offers 3–5 times higher compressive and tensile strengths than ordinary concre ...

2021

Phare de la Jument en mer d'iroise – Réponse structurale sous l'action de vagues déferlantes

Emmanuel Denarié

Les phares en mer constituent un patrimoine historique remarquable, souvent âgé de plus de 100 ans. La gestion de leur vieillissement est un défi et nécessite une compréhension approfondie de leur réponse structurale sous l'action des vagues. La réponse dy ...

Nathalie Domède & Frédéric Dubois2021

An analytical inverse analysis to determine equi-biaxial tensile properties of strain-hardening UHPFRC from ringon-ring test (vol 53, 123, 2020)

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Xiujiang Shen, Wanghu Peng

The article "An analytical inverse analysis to determine equi-biaxial tensile properties of strain-hardening UHPFRC from ringon-ring test", written by Xiujiang Shen, Eugen Bruhwiler, Emmanuel Denarie and Wanghu Peng was originally published electronically ...

SPRINGER2021

Capillary flow in UHPFRC with synthetic fibers, under high tensile stresses

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili

A novel Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) mix with synthetic fibers and a low clinker matrix, henceforth referred to as PE-UHPFRC, has been developed for structural applications. It exhibits a high tensile elastic limit above 7 MPa, ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Tensile response of Ultra High Performance PE Fiber Reinforced Concretes (PE-UHPFRC) under imposed shrinkage deformations

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz, Amir Hajiesmaeili

PE-UHPFRC is a new Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC), which is developed to reduce the environmental impact of conventional UHPFRC by replacing the steel fibers with synthetic ones and reducing the clinker content in the mix. The de ...

2021

Towards tailored cement-based materials with ground calcium carbonates

Emmanuel Denarié, Lionel Sofia

Proportioning the dosage of Ground Calcium Carbonates (GCC) in cementitious materials, beyond current normative levels, is one of the most promising ways towards sustainability of mortar and concrete technology. Performance parameters such as the water/bin ...

2021

An analytical inverse analysis to determine equi-biaxial tensile properties of strain-hardening UHPFRC from ring-on-ring test

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Xiujiang Shen

The equi-biaxial tensile properties of strain-hardening UHPFRC are determined and investigated based on an original analytical inverse analysis of results from ring-on-ring tests. First, the analytical inverse analysis method is developed based on the elas ...

2020

Tensile response of UHPFRC under very low strain rates and low temperatures

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz

This paper addresses the uniaxial tensile response of Strain Hardening Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (SH-UHPFRC) subjected to very low strain rates and low temperatures. The influence of four different strain rates; 1 × 10−5, 1 × 10−7, ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Modelling of the tensile behavior of SH-UHPFRC at low and high stress levels, under very low loading rates

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz

The tensile behavior under low loading rates governs to a large extend the mechanical response of Strain Hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (SH-UHPFRC) at early age and long term, in applications of rehabilitation. A viscoelastic-v ...

2020

Influence of low curing temperatures on the tensile response of low clinker Strain Hardening UHPFRC under full restraint

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz

The tensile response of strain hardening UHPFRC under full restraint, subjected to curing temperatures of 20 °C, 10 °C, 5 °C, was investigated for two types of mixes with silica fume; Mix I with pure type I cement and Mix II with 50% replacement of cement ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Tensile response of low clinker UHPFRC subjected to fully restrained shrinkage

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz, Amir Hajiesmaeili

This paper addresses the tensile response of Strain Hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (SH-UHPFRC) subjected to restrained autogenous shrinkage deformations under full and partial restraint conditions, right after casting and until ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Structural response of French offshore heritage lighthouses

Emmanuel Denarié

Offshore lighthouses are a remarkable historical heritage often over 100 years old. The management of their ageing is a challenge and requires a thorough understanding of their structural response under wave loading. With this aim in view, the dynamic resp ...

2019

Life Cycle Analysis of Strengthening Existing RC Structures with R-PE-UHPFRC

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili, Guillaume Habert

(PE)-UHPFRC, a novel strain hardening ultra high-performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) with low clinker content, using Ultra-High MolecularWeight Polyethylene (UHMW-PE) fibers, was developed for structural applications of rehabilitation. A compreh ...

2019

Kinetics of mixing-water repartition in UHPFRC paste and its effect on hydration and microstructural development

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Karen Scrivener, Mohammadhadi Kazemi Kamyab, Arnaud Charles Albert Muller

The hydration of an ultra-high performance fibre reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) paste with a water to cement ratio of 0.18 was followed by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) alongside more classical techniques for hydration kinetics, and microstructu ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Next generation UHPFRC for sustainable structural applications

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili

Over the last few decades, ever-increasing demands of society to the built environment have continually increased consumption of energy and materials for the construction and maintenance of structures. Meanwhile, Strain Hardening Ultra High-Performance Fib ...

2018

Effect of fiber orientation and specimen thickness on the tensile response of strain hardening UHPFRC mixes with reduced Embodied Energy

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili

Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRC) have demonstrated their potential to contain the explosion of maintenance costs (Economy and Environment) for civil engineering structures, due to their extremely low permeability associated with t ...

Springer Netherlands2018

Experimental study of tensile response of Strain Hardening UHPFRC at early age

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz

Strain Hardening Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (SH-UHPFRC), has a high tensile strength (over 10 MPa) and exhibit significant strain hardening (several ‰) under tensile loads. These appealing features make it a suitable material for impr ...

Springer Netherlands2018