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Contribute About Us Submit a Proposal Projects Environmental Safety & Health Concrete Applications Educational Foundation News Resources/Links			Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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. Please click here to visit the MIT CSH main website. A webinar was held on November 9, 2012, providing an update on the research taking place at the CSH. You may access the recorded webinar for viewing here. Check out Hard Science, a newsletter on work taking place at MIT. You can view edition one here, edition two here and edition three here. 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. Research briefs may be accessed below: Life Cycle Assessment Reports and Briefs Interim reports and periodic briefs on the Life Cycle Assessment Platform are published regularly and include: PVI Mechanistic Model Refined – April 2013 Life Cycle Assessment of 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 Roads: 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: 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 Crystalinity 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 Links to PVI E-Pubs
			© RMC Research & Education Foundation, 2013

© RMC Research & Education Foundation, 2013