Publications by Mohsen Ben Haha

Hydration and mixture design of calcined clay blended cements: review by the RILEM TC 282-CCL

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Anuj Parashar, Sreejith Krishnan, Yuvaraj Dhandapani

The RILEM technical committee 282-CCL: Calcined Clays as Supplementary Cementitious Materials, investigates all the aspects related to calcined clays, from clay exploration and characterization to calcination process, hydration reactions and concrete prope ...

SPRINGER2022

Report of RILEM TC 267-TRM phase 2: optimization and testing of the robustness of the R3 reactivity tests for supplementary cementitious materials

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Shashank Bishnoi, François Henri Avet, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Anuj Parashar, Diana Londoño Zuluaga, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh

The results of phase 1 of an interlaboratory test, coordinated by the RILEM TC 267-TRM "Tests for Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials" showed that the R-3 (rapid, relevant, reliable) test method, by measurement of heat release or bound water ...

SPRINGER2022

Clay calcination technology: state-of-the-art review by the RILEM TC 282-CCL

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Shashank Bishnoi, François Henri Avet, Adrian Alujas Diaz, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Anuj Parashar, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh

The use of calcined clays as supplementary cementitious materials provides the opportunity to significantly reduce the cement industry's carbon burden; however, use at a global scale requires a deep understanding of the extraction and processing of the cla ...

SPRINGER2022

Report of RILEM TC 267-TRM: Improvement and robustness study of lime mortar strength test for assessing reactivity of SCMs

Mohsen Ben Haha, Mathieu Antoni, Karen Scrivener, Shashank Bishnoi, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Anuj Parashar, Yuvaraj Dhandapani

RILEM TC 267-TRM is studying tests for the reactivity supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). In the first phase, the lime reactivity (LR) test, which is standardised in Indian standard (IS)-1727, gave promising correlations with 90-days cement mortar ...

SPRINGER2022

Report of RILEM TC 267-TRM phase 3: validation of the R-3 reactivity test across a wide range of materials

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Diana Londoño Zuluaga, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh

RILEM TC 267 TRM- "Tests for Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials" recommends the Rapid Reliable Relevant (R-3) test as a method for determining the chemical reactivity of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in Portland cement blends. ...

SPRINGER2022

The role of cavitation in drying cementitious materials

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Monisha Rastogi

This study examines the role of cavitation in drying cementitious materials. Classical nucleation theory is used to understand and study the parameters that influence cavitation pressures. The water desorption isotherms indicate that both heterogeneous and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Factors affecting the reactivity of slag at early and late ages

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Yosra Briki

This study investigates the difference between the reactivity of slag in NaOH solution (w/s = 100) and in cement paste (w/b = 0.4). The reactivity of slag is much higher in NaOH solution than in cement paste. When the NaOH solution is saturated with portla ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Impact of limestone fineness on cement hydration at early age

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Yosra Briki

This study compares the influence of two limestone fineness on strength development and cement hydration. The replacement of clinker by 20% of fine limestone (d(v,50) = 2 mu m and SSA = 4,21 m(2)/g) gives similar strength development to PC up to 7 days. Fi ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Understanding of the factors slowing down metakaolin reaction in limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) at late ages

Paul Bowen, Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Yosra Briki

Factors which could explain the slowing down of the metakaolin reaction in LC3 blends are investigated. Portlandite availability and the presence of aluminium ions in the pore solution are shown not to be limiting factors. ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Hydration reactions and stages of clinker composed mainly of stoichiometric ye'elimite

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Emmanuelle Boehm Courjault, Frank Bullerjahn

Ye'climitc (Ca4Al6O12SO4 or C(4)A(3)(S) over bar) is the main hydraulic mineral present in calcium sulfoaluminate cement (CSA). The hydration of ye'elimite is responsible for the early age cement properties. We identify 5 stages in the hydration of neat st ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Chemical shrinkage of ye'elimite with and without gypsum addition

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Frank Bullerjahn

Ye'elimite (Ca4Al6O12SO4 or C(4)A(3)S) is the main hydraulic mineral present in calcium sulphoaluminate cement (CSA). Its reaction is responsible for the (early) hydration and associated cement properties such as the chemical shrinkage. This paper discusse ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Factors influencing the hydration kinetics of ye'elimite; effect of mayenite

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Frank Bullerjahn

The aim of this study was to understand the origin of the variation in the hydraulic reactivity of ye'elimite systems. To this end, the hydration of two clinkers, one composed mainly of synthetic stoichiometric (C(4)A(3)(S) over bar) "Y" and the other of a ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Characterization of Fly Ashes by a Novel Method in the Scanning Electron Microscope

Cyrille Dunant, Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

In this paper, we show a new technique to characterize fly ashes using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Chemical composition of millions of points is measured by SEM-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and plotted in a ternary frequency plot. This new ...

ASTM INTERNATIONAL2019

Reactivity tests for supplementary cementitious materials: RILEM TC 267-TRM phase 1

Mohsen Ben Haha, Mathieu Antoni, Karen Scrivener, Shashank Bishnoi, Ruben Anton Snellings, Xuerun Li, Anuj Parashar, Yuvaraj Dhandapani

A primary aim of RILEM TC 267-TRM: Tests for Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) is to compare and evaluate the performance of conventional and novel SCM reactivity test methods across a wide range of SCMs. To this purpose, a round ro ...

SPRINGER2018

Influence of calcium and magnesium carbonates on hydration kinetics, hydrate assemblage and microstructural development of metakaolin containing composite cements

Mohsen Ben Haha, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

The hydration of metakaolin composite cements containing quartz, natural limestone and dolomite rock is studied using a multi-method approach and modelling. ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Outcomes of the RILEM round robin on degree of reaction of slag and fly ash in blended cements

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

Working group 2 of the RILEM TC 238-SCM undertook a comparison of laboratories and techniques for the quantification of the degree of reaction of supplementary cementitious materials in blended cements. A common set of binary pastes of Portland cement with ...

Springer Verlag2017

Phase assemblage of composite cements

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

The phase assemblage of binary Portland cements with 45 wt% replacement by calcareous fly ash and slag has been investigated by experiment, mass balance and thermodynamic simulations. The input for these calculations was based on clinker reaction measured ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Development of a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test method to evaluate the pozzolanic reactivity of calcined kaolinitic clays

Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Adrian Alujas Diaz, Ruben Anton Snellings

The present paper introduces a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test to predict the pozzolanic activity of calcined clays with kaolinite contents ranging from 0 to 95%. The test is based on the correlation between the chemical reactivity of calcined ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

A new quantification method based on SEM-EDS to assess fly ash composition and study the reaction of its individual components in hydrating cement paste

Cyrille Dunant, Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

Calcareous fly ashes are high-potential reactive residues for blended cements, but their qualification and use in concrete are hindered by heterogeneity and variability. Current characterization often fails to identify the dominant, most reactive, amorphou ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Fly ash as an assemblage of model Ca-Mg-Na-aluminosilicate glasses

Cyrille Dunant, Mohsen Ben Haha, Karen Scrivener, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski, Ruben Anton Snellings

Model Ca-Mg-Na-aluminosilicate glasses based on compositions found in a calcareous fly ash were synthesised and their reactivity assessed in NaOH solution and in Portland cement paste. It was found that the reactivity followed the same trend in both system ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015