Course Description

This course offers advanced insights into the sustainability of cementitious materials by focusing on their durability. Students will examine how physical and chemical interactions like water exchange, gas, and ions can impact cement through corrosion, shrinkage, spalling, and more.

What Students Will Learn

• Describe sorption and transport in porous materials.
• Examine interactions between water and cementitious material.
• Understand and evaluate mechanisms of rebars corrosion.
• Use numerical methods to study issues related to cementitious materials.
• Analyze state-of-the-art research in material durability.
• Evaluate experimental and numerical methods for durability analysis.

Prerequisites or Skills Necessary

• Completion of prerequisite MOOC on Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious Materials.

Course Outline

• Fluid in porous media
• Numerical methods - microscopic to macroscopic
• Water sorption cycle in cementitious materials
• Water transport in cementitious materials
• Chloride ingress
• Carbonation

Who This Course Is For

This course is designed for advanced students, professionals, or researchers in physics, chemistry, environmental studies, or related fields looking to deepen their understanding of the sustainability of cementitious materials, specifically their durability.

Real-world Applications

Skills acquired from this course can be applied in environmental policymaking, construction industry practices, and research initiatives aimed at developing more durable and environmentally friendly building materials.