Place ENS Paris-Saclay - Office MV26
Research activities
Our team is interested in new cement-based materials: self-placing concretes, high-performance concretes, fibre-reinforced concretes, polymer concretes, sprayed concretes, and so on. The aim is to optimise their rheological properties in the fresh state by controlling their formulation and assessing their impact on transfer properties and mechanical characteristics in the hardened state. From an experimental point of view, the studies include rheometric measurements on cement pastes, crushing tests to characterise blocking problems under flow and various physical characterisation techniques such as conductimetry and microscopy. In addition, multiphase and multiscale numerical modelling is being developed that explicitly takes account of induced heterogeneities, such as the separation between the aggregates and the liquid phase or the orientation of the fibres, during the flow of these materials under conditions close to those encountered in practice.
Responsibilities
Board member of the French Rheology Group