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CONCRETE SUSTAINABILITY HUB (CSH) AT MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
RESOURCES LIST
May 2015
Many resources are already available as a product of the research taking place at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub. The first two projects, “The Edge of Concrete: A Life Cycle Investigation
of Concrete and Concrete Structures” and “From Liquid to Stone: The Genesis of Concrete” are
both well underway. Information on how to access early findings is as follows:
Please Note: For the links in the electronic version to work, you must be connected to the internet.
Life Cycle Assessment Reports and Briefs
Interim reports and periodic briefs on the Life Cycle Assessment Platform are published regularly and
include:
The Impact of Traffic Jams on PVI Estimates – 2015 No. 3
Value of Building Life Cycle Cost Analysis – 2015 No. 2
A High-Level Analysis of Context-Dependent Albedo Effects – 2015 No. 1
The Decision-Making Process in the Design of Residential Buildings – March 2015
Streamlining Residential Building Energy Models – December 2014
Mapping of Excess Fuel Consumption – November 2014
Urban Physics: City Texture Matters – October 2014
Material-Specific Price Projections: Implementation – September 2014
Sustainable Pavements Fact Sheet – August 2014
Sustainable, Resilient Buildings Fact Sheet – August 2014
Quantifying Hazard Life-Cycle Cost – August 2014
Streamlined Energy Modeling of Residential Buildings – June 2014
Impact of Use Phase in Pavement Life Cycle Assessment: A Case Study of Alternative Designs in
Different Contexts – April 2014
LCCA of Pavements: Scenario Analysis – February 2014
PVI Mechanistic Model Gen II – December 2013
Mapping Thermal Mass Benefit – September 2013
Pavement Roughness and Fuel Consumption Report (Executive Summary only here) – August 2013
Back to the Future: Using Historic Prices to Improve Pavement Material Price Projects Report (Executive
Summary only here) – August 2013
Hazard Mitigation Assessment Technologies – August 2013
Views on LCA from Buildings Experts – July 2013
Uncertainty in IRI Incorporated into LCA – June 2013
Initial Cost Uncertainty in LCCA – May 2013
PVI Mechanistic Model Refined – April 2013
Life Cycle Assessment for Residential Buildings: A Literature Review and Gap Analysis – March 2013
Deterioration Induced Roughness in the US Network – February 2013
Where Rubber Meets the Road: Estimating the Impact of Deflection-Induced Pavement-Vehicle Interaction
on Fuel Consumption – February 2013
Survey of LCA Tools for Residential Buildings – January 2013
The State of LCA for Residential Buildings – December 2012
Key Drivers of Uncertainty in Pavement LCA – November 2012
Energy Management: City Texture Matters – October 2012
Forecasting Prices with Limited Data – October 2012
Optimizing Passive Thermal Mass – August 2012
Potential Roadway Network Savings and PVI – July 2012
Comparative Pavement LCAs with Uncertainty – June 2012
Quantifying Passive Thermal Mass – May 2012
Network, Pavements, and Fuel Consumption – April 2012
Model Based Pavement-Vehicle Interaction Simulation for Life Cycle Assessment of Pavements – April
2012
Modeling Uncertainty in LCCA – March 2012
Homes: A Match for Concrete Innovation – February 2012
Smoothness Matters, But... – January 2012
Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Pavement Life Cycle – August 2011
Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Building Life Cycle – August 2011
The Effects of Inflation and Its Volatility on the Choice of Construction Alternatives – August 2011
Accounting for Inflation in LCCA – July 2011
When the Rubber Hits the Road – June 2011
Adopting a Life Cycle Perspective – April 2011
Designing for Sustainable Pavements – March 2011
Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings – December 2010
Life Cycle Assessment of Pavements – December 2010
Concrete Science One-Page Briefs
Work is progressing quickly on the Concrete Science platform, as evidenced by one-page briefs that are
published monthly on a variety of topics, including:
Concrete Science Platform Phase I Summary White Paper – November 2014
Modeling of Drying Shrinkage – July 2014
Modeling C3S impurities using Cluster Expansion – March 2014
Resilience at High Temperatures – January 2014
Early Hydration: a local business – November 2013
Controlling the Reactivity of Fly Ash – August 2013
Atomic Scale Grinding of Clinker – July 2013
Early Age Fracture Resistance – June 2013
Nano-Engineering Creep – May 2013
Clinker Grindability: Microstructure Matters – April 2013
Predicting C-S-H Aging – March 2013
Nucleation Seeding of Alkali Activated Paste – February 2013
Properties of Polymorphs of Belite – January 2013
Mesoscale Modeling of Sorption Hysteresis – December 2012
When Fracture Stems From the Atoms – November 2012
Induction Period in Alite Hydration – August 2012
C-S-H Texture From Sorption Isotherms – July 2012
Validating Effects of Cement Paste Composition on Mechanics – June 2012
Visualizing Hydration Products – May 2012
Crystallinity of Cement Clinkers: Application of Rietveld Refinement – April 2012
Aluminum and Sulfate Doped Belite – March 2012
Gaining Strength by Splitting Water – February 2012
Locking radionuclides in Cement – January 2012
Holding it Together: C-S-H Cohesion – December 2011
Predicting Setting Times Bottom-Up – November 2011
Why Wet C-S-H is Weak – October 2011
When Concrete Takes (part of) the Heat – September 2011
ReaxFF Hydration of Clinker Surfaces – July 2011
Setting From Statistical Principles – June 2011
Clinker Grinding at Breaking Point – May 2011
What’s in Your Concrete? (Part 2) – April 2011
Clinker: When Impurities Matter – March 2011
What’s in Your Concrete? (Part 1) – February 2011
Toughness Simply by Scratching – January 2011
C-S-H: Water, Water Everywhere – December 2010
The Hidden Forces of Setting – November 2010
Quantum Clinker Engineering – October 2010
Locking Mercury into Concrete – October 2010
Fly Ash is Critical for C-A-S-H – September 2010
MIT CSH Journal Articles
Comparative pavement life cycle assessment with parameter uncertainty
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Opportunities for Concrete Pavements
Probabalistic Characterization of Uncertain Inputs in the Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Pavements
Each of the reports and briefs noted above is available from the Foundation’s homepage at www.rmcfoundation.org and the MIT CSH website at http://web.mit.edu/cshub/news/news.html. Look for new
briefs and reports regularly.
The Concrete Sustainability Hub was established in 2009 by the RMC Research & Education Foundation
and the Portland Cement Association to accelerate emerging breakthroughs in concrete science and engineering and to transfer that science into practice. The research taking place at MIT CSH will focus on
quantifying and enhancing the sustainable nature of concrete.
Use the QR Code to the left to access many
of the resources available from the RMC
Research & Education Foundation