Research

Thrust 1: AI-Assisted Sustainable Cementitious Materials and Manufacturing 

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

Outcomes:

  1. Tao, C., and Massoudi, M. (2024). . Materials, 17(7): 1504.
  2. Tao, C., & Masters, F. J., Ferraro, C. C., Watts, B. E., (2023). . U.S. Patent Application No. 17/773,179.
  3. Tao, C., Masters, F. J., Ferraro, C. C., and Watts, B. (2020). , Technical Patent, T17372WO001(222107-2550). 
  4. Tao, C., Watts, B., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2019). . Computer鈥怉ided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 34 (3), 266-278.
  5. Watts, B. E., Tao, C., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2018). . Construction and Building Materials, 161, 606-617.
  6. Tao, C., Watts, B., Ferraro, C. C., and Masters, F. J. (2018). , 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). . International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 133, 103717
  2. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B. G., & Massoudi, M. (2021). . Energies, 14(9), 2369.

  3. Tao, C., Kutchko, B., Rosenbaum, E, and Massoudi, M. (2020). . Energies, 13 (3), 570.

  4. Tao, C., Rosenbaum, E., Kutchko, B. G., and Massoudi, M. (2020). , National Energy Technology Laboratory, No. DOE/NETL-2020/2116.

  5. Tao, C., Kutchko, B., Rosenbaum, E., Wu, W., and Massoudi, M. (2019). . Energies, 12 (13), 2604.

  6. Tao, C., Wu, W., and Massoudi, M (2019), . 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.