La technologie du béton progresse très rapidement, principalement en ce qui concerne l'amélioration de ses propriétés mécaniques. Au cours des dernières années, de grands efforts ont été faits pour améliorer l'apparence de la surface du béton. L'amélioration de la surface du béton améliore non seulement l'aspect esthétique du béton, mais protège également le béton contre les agressions provenant de l'environnement. La surface du béton brut présente généralement de nombreux défauts de surface. Ces défauts sont visibles à l'œil nu par des variations de couleur ou de texture. Selon la littérature, l'ensemble de tous ces défauts est dû à la composition initiale du béton, aux formes de remplissage et enfin, aux conditions de conservation après démoulage. Au travers de ma thèse j'ai travaillé sur l'influence de la composition des matériaux cimentaires sur l'aspect final de la surface une fois durcie, et notamment en analysant le rapport E/C. Les essais ont tous été effectués sur de ciment CEM I. Pour la partie expérimentale, nous avons fabriqué des pâtes de ciment et des mortiers avec différents rapports E/C dans des moules métalliques de 4x4x16 $cm^3$. Nous avons utilisé un spectre colorimètre pour mesurer l'intensité de la lumière réfléchie en termes de luminance et un microscope numérique pour mesurer la rugosité des surfaces en termes de surface développée. A partir de nos résultats, nous avons observé que l'augmentation du rapport E/C engendre l'éclaircissement des surfaces et une diminution de la rugosité de la surface des matériaux cimentaires. Nous avons également effectué des essais rhéologiques sur des pâtes et des mortiers frais. Pour les pâtes, un rhéomètre rotatif de l'IRC (Institut de Recherche en Constructibilité) -ESTP Paris a été utilisé, tandis que pour les mortiers, le rhéomètre de CERIB (à Épernon) a été privilégié. Par nos résultats, nous avons observé que l'augmentation de l'eau dans la composition des matériaux cimentaires engendre considérablement la diminution du seuil de cisaillement et de la viscosité. Les modèles mathématiques pour décrire l'écoulement de matériaux cimentaires utilisés étaient les modèles classiques (Bingham, Herschel Bulkley et Casson) et modifiés par Papanastasiou. A partir de la régression numérique, nous avons observé que la loi de Herschel Bulkley et tous les autres modèles modifiés sont bien adaptés pour décrire le comportement des pâtes de ciment. Pour les mortiers, les modèles Bingham, Herschel Bulkley et tous les modèles modifiés sont bien adaptés pour les mortiers fluides. Enfin, la loi de Bingham-Papanastasiou a été choisie pour modéliser l'écoulement des pâtes de ciment via COMSOL multiphysics. Les résultats numériques sont comparés avec ceux d’expérimentation / This thesis deals with the study of the influence of the water variations in the concrete-formwork interface. The proposed approach is intended to analyze two aspects. • The role of the concrete mixing formulation, and the casting procedures on the finished mortar surface. • The movement of water in concrete formwork interface. Firstly, we search to confirm the phenomenological results on the relationship between the luminance of the concrete surface and its roughness, this last being governed by the local W/C ratio in the formwork interface. This relationship will be established for compositions of modern concrete. After, we will examine the role of operational factors on the granular segregation on the mortar surface and their consequences on the bleeding of the specimens, on the water movements as well as on the color of the surface. Parameters : Formulation parameters : granular composition, G/S, S/G, W/C ratio and admixtures Parameters of implementation: Temperature and relative humidity, vibration, waiting time, type of formwork, release agents. Maturation parameters: temperature, relative humidity, form release deadline and carbonation

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-01T17:54:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-06-18. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-04-01T18:00:22Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000563860.pdf: 2622089 bytes, checksum: e07ff1d0d497a33adaec5ce6119b0e03 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nesta dissertação faz-se a análise da dinâmica não-linear de um sistema que possui preso a ele um motor de corrente contínua com potência limitada, onde são acoplados uma mola não linear e um amortecedor do tipo magneto-reológico (dispositivo que tem como fluído interno o fluído magneto-reológico). Com o objetivo de estudar e analisar a influência deste dispositivo na dinâmica do oscilador. Inicialmente apresenta-se uma breve descrição do tipo de problema estudado (sistemas não ideais) e uma revisão dos principais trabalhos que têm sido feitos tendo este dispositivo como foco de estudos. Apresentam-se os modelos utilizados para prever o comportamento destes dispositivos e também uma síntese de alguns modelos (mecânicos e matemáticos) mais elaborados e completos utilizados também para prever este comportamento. A partir daí é feita a apresentação do modelo que prevê o comportamento do amortecedor MR utilizado (modelo Bingham) e de uma suavização do mesmo, utilizada com o objetivo de melhorar o comportamento computacional do modelo inicial, junto a isso, apresenta-se a modelagem matemática do problema visando à obtenção das equações governantes do sistema. Faz-se então a análise do sistema durante a passagem pela ressonância (onde a freqüência de rotação do motor CC se aproxima numericamente e passa pela freqüência natural do sistema), analisando o efeito deste amortecedor durante esta passagem, analisa-se também a influência do dispositivo na evolução do Efeito Sommerfeld, um dos fenômenos intrínsecos desta classe de sistemas e também é feita uma analise do sistema em condições de movimento caótico também com o objetivo de prever o comportamento deste dispositivo, tudo isso é executado através da integração numérica das equações governantes do sistema. Para efeito de ilustração apresenta-se, também, uma pequena amostra do comportamento do sistema ideal paralelo ao estudado ... / In this dissertation it made the analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a system that possess to fixed it a direct-current motor with limited power, where is connected a damper of the type Magnetorheological (device that has as fluid intern the fluid Magnetorheological), with the objective to study and to analyze the influence of this device in the dynamics of the oscillator. Initially one brief description of the type of studied problem is presented (nonideal systems) and a revision of the main works that have been made having this device as focus of studies. The used models are presented to predict the behavior of these devices and also a synthesis of some models (mechanics and mathematicians) more elaborated and complete also used to predict this behavior. To continue this work, we present the model that predict the behavior of used MR damper (the Bingham Model) and a smoothing of the same, used with the objective to improve the computational behavior of the initial model and the mathematical modeling of the problem, together this, we show mathematical modeling of this problem aiming at to the attainment of the governing equations of the system. The analysis of the system it is made then during the passage for the resonance (where the frequency of DC motor it approaches numerically and crosses the natural frequency of the system), analyzing the effect of this damper during this passage, the influence of the device in the evolution of Sommerfeld Effect is also analyzed, one of the intrinsic phenomena of this classroom of systems and also is made a analyzes of the system in conditions of chaotic motions also with the objective to predict the behavior of this device, everything this is executed through the numerical integration of the governing equations of the system. For illustration effect it is presented, also, a small sample of the behavior of the parallel ideal system to the studied one, also with the presence of shock absorber MR, in the..

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) measurements allow us to infer the microstructural properties of white matter and to reconstruct fiber pathways in-vivo. High angular diffusion imaging (HARDI) allows for the creation of more and more complex local models connecting the microstructure to the measured signal. One of the challenges is the derivation of meaningful metrics describing the underlying structure from the local models. The aim hereby is to increase the specificity of the widely used metric fractional anisotropy (FA) by using the additional information contained within the HARDI data. A local model which is connected directly to the underlying microstructure through the model of a single fiber population is spherical deconvolution. It produces a fiber orientation density function (fODF), which can often be interpreted as superposition of multiple peaks, each associated to one relatively coherent fiber population (bundle). Parameterizing these peaks one is able to disentangle and characterize these bundles. In this work, the fODF peaks are approximated by Bingham distributions, capturing first and second order statistics of the fiber orientations, from which metrics for the parametric quantification of fiber bundles are derived. Meaningful relationships between these measures and the underlying microstructural properties are proposed. The focus lies on metrics derived directly from properties of the Bingham distribution, such as peak length, peak direction, peak spread, integral over the peak, as well as a metric derived from the comparison of the largest peaks, which probes the complexity of the underlying microstructure. These metrics are compared to the conventionally used fractional anisotropy (FA) and it is shown how they may help to increase the specificity of the characterization of microstructural properties. Visualization of the micro-structural arrangement is another application of dMRI. This is done by using tractography to propagate the fiber layout, extracted from the local model, in each voxel. In practice most tractography algorithms use little of the additional information gained from HARDI based local models aside from the reconstructed fiber bundle directions. In this work an approach to tractography based on the Bingham parameterization of the fODF is introduced. For each of the fiber populations present in a voxel the diffusion signal and tensor are computed. Then tensor deflection tractography is performed. This allows incorporating the complete bundle information, performing local interpolation as well as using multiple directions per voxel for generating tracts. Another aspect of this work is the investigation of the spherical harmonic representation which is used most commonly for the fODF by means of the parameters derived from the Bingham distribution fit. Here a strong connection between the approximation errors in the spherical representation of the Dirac delta function and the distribution of crossing angles recovered from the fODF was discovered. The final aspect of this work is the application of the metrics derived from the Bingham fit to a number of fetal datasets for quantifying the brain’s development. This is done by introducing the Gini-coefficient as a metric describing the brain’s age.

Cette thèse vise à obtenir et à développer des modèles mathématiques pour comprendre certains aspects de la dynamique des fluides granulaires hétérogènes. Plus précisément, le résultat attendu consiste à développer trois modèles. Nous supposons dans un premier temps que la dynamique du matériau granulaire est modélisée à l’aide d’une approche fondée sur la théorie du mélange. D’autre part, pour les deux modèles restant, nous considérons que le fluide granulaire est modélisé à l’aide d’une approche multiphase associant des structures et des fluides rigides. Plus exactement : • Dans le premier modèle, nous avons obtenu un ensemble d’équations basées sur la théorie du mélange en utilisant des outils d’homogénéisation et une procédure thermodynamique. Ces équations reflètent deux propriétés essentielles des fluides granulaires : la nature visqueuse du fluide interstitiel et un comportement de type Coulomb de la composante granulaire. Avec nos équations, nous étudions le problème de Couette entre deux cylindres infinis d’un écoulement hétérogène granulaire dense, composé d’un fluide newtonien et d’une composante solide. • Dans le deuxième modèle, nous considérons le mouvement d’un corps rigide dans un matériau viscoplastique. Les équations 3D de Bingham modélisent ce matériau et les lois de Newton régissent le déplacement du corps rigide. Notre résultat principal est d’établir l’existence d’une solution faible pour le système correspondant. • Dans le troisième modèle, nous considérons le mouvement d’un corps rigide conducteur thermique parfait dans un fluide newtonien conducteur de la chaleur. Les équations 3D de Fourier-Navier-Stokes modélisent le fluide, tandis que les lois de Newton et l’équilibre de l’énergie interne modélisent le déplacement du corps rigide. Notre principal objectif dans cette partie est de prouver l’existence d’une solution faible pour le système correspondant. La formulation faible est composée de l’équilibre entre la quantité du mouvement et l’équation de l’énergie totale, qui inclut la pression du fluide, et implique une limite libre due au mouvement du corps rigide. Pour obtenir une pression intégrable, nous considérons une condition au limite de glissement de Navier pour la limite extérieure et l’interface mutuelle / This Ph.D. thesis aims to obtain and to develop some mathematical models to understand some aspects of the dynamics of heterogeneous granular fluids. More precisely, the expected result is to develop three models, one where the dynamics of the granular material is modeled using a mixture theory approach, and the other two, where we consider the granular fluid is modeled using a multiphase approach involving rigid structures and fluids. More precisely : • In the first model, we obtained a set of equations based on the mixture theory using homogenization tools and a thermodynamic procedure. These equations reflect two essential properties of granular fluids : the viscous nature of the interstitial fluid and a Coulomb-type of behavior of the granular component. With our equations, we study the problem of a dense granular heterogeneous flow, composed by a Newtonian fluid and a solid component in the setting of the Couette flow between two infinite cylinders. • In the second model, we consider the motion of a rigid body in a viscoplastic material. The 3D Bingham equations model this material, and the Newton laws govern the displacement of the rigid body. Our main result is the existence of a weak solution for the corresponding system. • In the third model, we consider the motion of a perfect heat conductor rigid body in a heat conducting Newtonian fluid. The 3D Fourier-Navier-Stokes equations model the fluid, and the Newton laws and the balance of internal energy model the rigid body. Our main result is the existence of a weak solution for the corresponding system. The weak formulation is composed by the balance of momentum and the balance of total energy equation which includes the pressure of the fluid, and it involves a free boundary (due to the motion of the rigid body). To obtain an integrable pressure, we consider a Navier slip boundary condition for the outer boundary and the mutual interface

In industrial practice greases are mainly used as lubricants in hydrodynamic plain bearings and roller bearings. The use in hydrostatic bearings is avoided due to the difficult controllability. One reason is the complex non-Newtonian flow behavior of greases. The motivation for this paper is the use of greases to increase the efficiency of hydrostatic bearings. The assumption is that the so-called yield stress of consistent greases can lead to self-sealing behavior in the bearing under stationary operation conditions. Assuming a volume-flow-free operation of the bearing, a concept for the active control of the sealing gap height and thus the bearing stiffness was developed. The concept idea is the use of a second medium with Newtonian characteristic for pressure transfer. The grease and the pressure control fluid are structurally separated. The grease is induced in the shortest possible way into the bearing pocket to keep the pressure losses as low as possible. The results of test bench investigations indicate the feasibility of a gap height control with very high bearing stiffness under use of highly consistent greases and initiate further investigation on non-stationary operation.

Les affleurements de Bevons, Nyons et Rosans dans le Sud-Est de la France, comme ceux du Numidien (Sicile, Tunisie, Maroc...) ou de la Tourelle (Canada) permettent l'observation de nombreuses injectites sableuses alimentées par des chenaux turbiditiques. Deux types d'injectites sont présents : les sills (horizontaux) et les dykes (verticaux), les dykes étant issus des sills. Leurs processus de mise en place sont, selon les auteurs, per ascensum, post-dépositionnels, et (sans doute le plus souvent) per descensum, contemporains de la mise en place du sable nourricier et objet de la présente étude. L'approche des mécanismes intervenant dans cette fracturation et la modélisation de celle-ci ont notamment pour but de préciser l'évolution de l'étanchéité des matériaux argileux pouvant constituer un site de stockage de déchets. D'un autre point de vue, des injections sableuses étant localisées entre des réservoirs contenant des hydrocarbures, une détermination de leur géométrie est nécessaire pour prédire les circulations potentielles de fluides durant la production. Un modèle géométrique a été établi à partir de ces observations et a permis de faire certaines hypothèses sur les mécanismes à prendre en compte dans les modélisations de cette fracturation et/ou injection. Plusieurs approches sont menées en parallèle : - L'étude de la compaction dans le massif, avant l'injection : pour des concentrations en sable assez élevées (> 35 %), le poids de la colonne de mélange d'injection est supérieure à la contrainte verticale dans la partie superficielle du massif. Cette inversion de densité peut être responsable du fait que l'injection se propage plutôt vers le bas dans le cas des dykes ou le long de discontinuités stratigraphiques (telles que les niveaux de cendres par exemple). Lorsque l'on descend dans les sédiments, la pression dans la colonne de mélange sableux varie linéairement avec la profondeur alors que la contrainte dans les sédiments varie non linéairement (issue d'une courbe de porosité en exponentielle). A partir d'une certaine profondeur, la pression fluide devient inférieure aux contraintes dans la succession sédimentaire : l'injection ne peut pas dépasser cette profondeur. Ainsi, la propagation des dykes est limitée par le poids de son encaissant. - L'utilisation de la fracturation hydraulique comme mécanisme de l'injection : la mécanique des roches et plus précisément les mécanismes d'hydrofracturation ont été testés pour tenter de modéliser ces observations à grande échelle. La force responsable de l'initiation et de la propagation des fractures est la pression due à la mise en place du chenal turbiditique. Le modèle tient compte du fait que l'injection doit soulever les terrains sus-jacents. Les premiers résultats ont permis de montrer que dès qu'une fracture horizontale est initiée, la propagation est rapide. L'ouverture obtenue (épaisseur d'un sill) est décamétrique, soit du même ordre de grandeur que les observations de terrain. - L'utilisation d'un fluide à seuil dans un réseau établi, avec des probabilités cohérentes avec la réalité des phénomènes entrant en jeu, a permis de déterminer les extensions maximales d'injection en accord avec les observations de terrain : - Un sill seul peut se propager sur 2400 m en quelques dizaines d'heures, - Un dyke seul peut descendre jusqu'à 400 m sous le paléofond de mer en quelques secondes, - Un réseau de sills et de dykes connectés (ce réseau étant connecté au chenal par un sill) peut avoir une extension horizontale de 1200 m et verticalement de 400 m, et se mettre en place en quelques heures. La formation des sills est plus longue que celle des dykes, la formation d'un sill seul dure plusieurs heures alors que celle d'un dyke dure quelques secondes. Lorsque les sills et les dykes sont connectés, le temps de propagation du réseau est d'environ 2 heures. Les dykes se forment toujours en quelques secondes et ont un effet sur la propagation des sills qui se propagent deux fois moins loin que s'ils étaient seuls.

Orientador: José Manoel Balthazar / Banca: Bento Rodrigues de Pontes Junior / Banca: Vicente Lopes Junior / Resumo: Nesta dissertação faz-se a análise da dinâmica não-linear de um sistema que possui preso a ele um motor de corrente contínua com potência limitada, onde são acoplados uma mola não linear e um amortecedor do tipo magneto-reológico (dispositivo que tem como fluído interno o fluído magneto-reológico). Com o objetivo de estudar e analisar a influência deste dispositivo na dinâmica do oscilador. Inicialmente apresenta-se uma breve descrição do tipo de problema estudado (sistemas não ideais) e uma revisão dos principais trabalhos que têm sido feitos tendo este dispositivo como foco de estudos. Apresentam-se os modelos utilizados para prever o comportamento destes dispositivos e também uma síntese de alguns modelos (mecânicos e matemáticos) mais elaborados e completos utilizados também para prever este comportamento. A partir daí é feita a apresentação do modelo que prevê o comportamento do amortecedor MR utilizado (modelo Bingham) e de uma suavização do mesmo, utilizada com o objetivo de melhorar o comportamento computacional do modelo inicial, junto a isso, apresenta-se a modelagem matemática do problema visando à obtenção das equações governantes do sistema. Faz-se então a análise do sistema durante a passagem pela ressonância (onde a freqüência de rotação do motor CC se aproxima numericamente e passa pela freqüência natural do sistema), analisando o efeito deste amortecedor durante esta passagem, analisa-se também a influência do dispositivo na evolução do Efeito Sommerfeld, um dos fenômenos intrínsecos desta classe de sistemas e também é feita uma analise do sistema em condições de movimento caótico também com o objetivo de prever o comportamento deste dispositivo, tudo isso é executado através da integração numérica das equações governantes do sistema. Para efeito de ilustração apresenta-se, também, uma pequena amostra do comportamento do sistema ideal paralelo ao estudado ... / Abstract: In this dissertation it made the analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a system that possess to fixed it a direct-current motor with limited power, where is connected a damper of the type Magnetorheological (device that has as fluid intern the fluid Magnetorheological), with the objective to study and to analyze the influence of this device in the dynamics of the oscillator. Initially one brief description of the type of studied problem is presented (nonideal systems) and a revision of the main works that have been made having this device as focus of studies. The used models are presented to predict the behavior of these devices and also a synthesis of some models (mechanics and mathematicians) more elaborated and complete also used to predict this behavior. To continue this work, we present the model that predict the behavior of used MR damper (the Bingham Model) and a smoothing of the same, used with the objective to improve the computational behavior of the initial model and the mathematical modeling of the problem, together this, we show mathematical modeling of this problem aiming at to the attainment of the governing equations of the system. The analysis of the system it is made then during the passage for the resonance (where the frequency of DC motor it approaches numerically and crosses the natural frequency of the system), analyzing the effect of this damper during this passage, the influence of the device in the evolution of Sommerfeld Effect is also analyzed, one of the intrinsic phenomena of this classroom of systems and also is made a analyzes of the system in conditions of chaotic motions also with the objective to predict the behavior of this device, everything this is executed through the numerical integration of the governing equations of the system. For illustration effect it is presented, also, a small sample of the behavior of the parallel ideal system to the studied one, also with the presence of shock absorber MR, in the.. / Mestre

In the first chapter of the thesis we present an introduction to the visco- plasticity and overview of the presented problems. The constitutive relation for Bingham fluid is derived and in the second chapter. Further there is demon- strated a procedure of proving existence and uniqueness with classical varia- tional method. This method is compared with the same process using modern implicit theory. The last chapter starts with summary of used problem formu- lations and used software. It is then followed by the main part with results of numerical simulations, both for the purpose of used formulations comparison and then verification of the preferred one in more complicated simulations. We expect a possible application of tested approaches on different materials. 1

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