Influence of the interfacial transition zone and microcracking on the diffusivity, permeability and sorptivity of cement-based materials after drying

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A lattice approach to model flow in cracked concrete (2008, background): “Other types of loading, such as drying shrinkage subjected to aggregate restraint, lead to distributed micro-cracking, which depends on aggregate size and volume fraction and cannot be uniquely related to a macroscopic crack width [29].”
Influence of aggregate size and volume fraction on shrinkage induced micro-cracking of concrete and mortar (2008, methodology): “Drying of cement based composites, such as concrete and mortar, induces cracking if shrinkage of the constituents is either internally or externally restrained.”
Aggregate shape effect on the diffusivity of mortar (2014, methodology): “The experimental results also show a certain variability attributed to different test methods (under steady-state regime [52,54–56] or non-steady-state regime [57,58]), different diffusion species (chlorides [54,56–58], oxygen [55], tritiated water [52]), different sand grading [54,58], different w/”
On the penetration of corrosion products from reinforcing steel into concrete due to chloride-induced corrosion (2010, result): “These observations seem to be in line with our recent study on the influence of ITZ on mass transport properties [41].”