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Physical Phenomena Involved in Flows of Fresh Cementitious Materials

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Simulation of Fresh Concrete Flow

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The vast family of industrial cementitious materials presents such a variety of behaviors in the fresh state that describing them as a whole seems unattainable (cf. Fig 1.1). This is even more so for our objective here: studying the possibility to predict their response in practical processing conditions.

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Roussel, N., Gram, A. (2014). Physical Phenomena Involved in Flows of Fresh Cementitious Materials. In: Roussel, N., Gram, A. (eds) Simulation of Fresh Concrete Flow. RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8884-7_1

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