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Thrust 1: AI-Assisted Sustainable Cementitious Materials and Manufacturing 

[Sponsors: NSF, ACI, NASEM, IISG, FDOT]

Outcomes:

  1. Tao, C., and Massoudi, M. (2024). On the Flow of a Cement Suspension: The Effects of Nano-silica and Fly Ash Particles. Materials, 17(7): 1504.
  2. Tao, C., & Masters, F. J., Ferraro, C. C., Watts, B. E., (2023). Cement kiln modeling for improved operation. U.S. Patent Application No. 17/773,179.
  3. Tao, C., Masters, F. J., Ferraro, C. C., and Watts, B. (2020). Virtual Rotary Kiln Modeling to Optimize Cement Production and Testing, Technical Patent, T17372WO001(222107-2550). 
  4. Tao, C., Watts, B., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2019). A Multivariate Computational Framework to Characterize and Rate Virtual Portland Cements. Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 34 (3), 266-278.
  5. Watts, B. E., Tao, C., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2018). Proficiency Analysis of VCCTL Results for Heat of Hydration and Mortar Cube Strength. Construction and Building Materials, 161, 606-617.

  6. Tao, C., Watts, B., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2018). Advanced Analysis, Validation and Optimization of Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing, Report to Florida Department of Transportation, 01687187, BDV31-977-06.

  7. Tao, C., Watts, B., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2017). Exploring Pareto Frontier with Metaheuristic in Virtual Modeling of Cement, 8th Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Cements 2017), Atlanta, GA.

  8. Watts, B. E., Tao, C., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2017).  Evaluation of the VCCTL as a Replacement for Physical Testing Using Traditional Laboratory Proficiency Metrics, 8th Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Cements 2017), Atlanta, GA.

Thrust 2: Oil and Gas Wellbore Cement Slurries for Geotechnical Infrastructure Hazard Mitigation

[Sponsors: DOE-NETL, ORISE, API]

Outcomes:

  1. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B., and Massoudi, M. (2021). Pulsating Poiseuille Flow of a Cement slurry. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 133, 103717

  2. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B. G., & Massoudi, M. (2021). A Brief Review of Gas Migration in Oilwell Cement Slurries. Energies, 14(9), 2369.

  3. Tao, C., Kutchko, B., Rosenbaum, E, and Massoudi, M. (2020). A Review of Rheological Modeling of Cement Slurry in Oil Well Applications. Energies, 13 (3), 570.

  4. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B. G., and Massoudi, M. (2020). The Importance of Vane Configuration on Yield Stress Measurements of Cement Slurry, National Energy Technology Laboratory, No. DOE/NETL-2020/2116.

  5. Tao, C., Kutchko, B., Rosenbaum, E., Wu, W., and Massoudi, M. (2019). Steady Flow of a Cement Slurry. Energies, 12 (13), 2604.

  6. Tao, C., Wu, W., and Massoudi, M (2019), Natural Convection in a Non-Newtonian Fluid: Effects of Particle Concentration. Fluids, 4 (4), 192.

  7. Mofakham, A., Tao, C., Ahmadi, G., Massoudi, M., Rosenbaum, E., and Kutchko, B. (2020). Computational Modeling of Oil Well Cementing and Gas Migration Process, Fluids Engineering Division’s Summer Meeting (FEDSM2020), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Orlando, FL.

  8. Tao, C., Kutchko, B., Rosenbaum, E., and Massoudi, M. (2019). Flow of a Cement Suspension in a pipe, 2019 Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA.

  9. Rosenbaum, E., Tao, C., Kutchko, B., and Massoudi, M. (2019). Well Cement Behavior and Gas Migration during Early Hydration – Methods to Determine Cement Slurry Gelation to Ensure Wellbore Integrity, 2019 Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA.

  10. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B., and Massoudi, M. (2019). Flow of a Cement Slurry Modeled as a Generalized Second Grade Fluid, ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference 2019 (AJKFluids), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), San Francisco, CA.

  11. Tao, C., Kutchko, B., Rosenbaum, E., and Massoudi, M. (2019). Unsteady Flow of a Cement Slurry, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2019 (EMI2019), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

  12. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B., and Massoudi, M. (2019). Flow of Cement Slurry in a Vertical Pipe, 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), American Mathematical Society (AMS), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Baltimore, MD.

  13. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B., and Massoudi, M. (2019). Effects of Shear-rate Dependent Viscosity on the Flow of a Cement Slurry, Dynamics Days 2019, International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

  14. Tao, C., Kutchko, B., and Massoudi, M. (2018). Numerical Analysis for Flow of a Cement Slurry, Mid-Atlantic Numerical Analysis Day (NA-Day 2018), Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.