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Ahmed Loukili is affiliated with École Centrale de Nantes in France and has a research profile predominantly in the field of Engineering with a focus on Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their research spans several subfields including:

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Building and Construction
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Ocean Engineering

Ahmed Loukili's main research topics encompass:

  • Concrete and Cement Materials Research
  • Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
  • Concrete Properties and Behavior
  • Concrete Corrosion and Durability
  • Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
  • Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics
  • Microbial Applications in Construction Materials

The researcher has contributed substantially to scientific literature, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Construction and Building Materials
  • Journal of Building Engineering
  • Association Universitaire de Génie Civil
  • Materials
  • Materials and Structures

Ahmed Loukili collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Emmanuel Rozière
  • Benoît Hilloulin
  • Imane Bekrine
  • Syed Yasir Alam
  • Faten Souayfan

Representative recent papers authored by or involving Ahmed Loukili include:

  • Calcined clay - Limestone cements: Hydration processes with high and low-grade kaolinite clays, 2021, Construction and Building Materials
  • Early age autogenous shrinkage cracking risk of an ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) wall: Modelling and experimental results, 2021, Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • Alkali-activated grouts based on slag-fly ash mixtures: From early-age characterization to long-term phase composition, 2020, Construction and Building Materials
  • 29Si and 27Al MAS NMR spectroscopic studies of activated metakaolin-slag mixtures, 2022, Construction and Building Materials
  • Determination of the origin of the strength regain after self-healing of binary and ternary cementitious materials including slag and metakaolin, 2021, Journal of Building Engineering

Best Publications

  • Durability of concrete exposed to leaching and external sulphate attacks

    Emmanuel Rozière;Ahmed Loukili;R. El Hachem;Frédéric Grondin

  • Experimental characterization of the self-healing of cracks in an ultra high performance cementitious material: Mechanical tests and acoustic emission analysis

    Sébastien Granger;Ahmed Loukili;Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot;Gilles Chanvillard

  • Predicting Ca(OH)2 content and chemical shrinkage of hydrating cement pastes using analytical approach

    Pierre Mounanga;Abdelhafid Khelidj;Ahmed Loukili;Véronique Baroghel-Bouny

  • Hydration kinetics, change of relative humidity, and autogenous shrinkage of ultra-high-strength concrete

    Ahmed Loukili;Abdelhafid Khelidj;Pierre Richard

  • Design of polymeric capsules for self-healing concrete

    Benoit Hilloulin;Benoit Hilloulin;Kim Van Tittelboom;Elke Gruyaert;Nele De Belie

  • Chemical shrinkage of cement pastes and mortars at very early age : Effect of limestone filler and granular inclusions

    Marwen Bouasker;Pierre Mounanga;Ph Turcry;Ahmed Loukili

  • Autogenous deformations of cement pastes: Part II. W/C effects, micro–macro correlations, and threshold values

    Véronique Baroghel-Bouny;Pierre Mounanga;Abdelhafid Khelidj;Ahmed Loukili

  • Fracture examination in concrete through combined digital image correlation and acoustic emission techniques

    Syed Yasir Alam;Syed Yasir Alam;Jacqueline Saliba;Ahmed Loukili

  • Influence of paste volume on shrinkage cracking and fracture properties of self-compacting concrete

    Emmanuel Rozière;Sébastien Granger;Philippe Turcry;Ahmed Loukili

  • A new approach to determine autogenous shrinkage of mortar at an early age considering temperature history

    Ahmed Loukili;David Chopin;Abdelhafid Khelidj;Jean-Yves Le Touzo

  • A performance based approach for durability of concrete exposed to carbonation

    Emmanuel Rozière;Ahmed Loukili;François Cussigh

  • Performance-based design and carbonation of concrete with high fly ash content

    A. Younsi;Ph Turcry;E. Rozière;Abdelkarim Aît-Mokhtar

  • Improvement of the early-age reactivity of fly ash and blast furnace slag cementitious systems using limestone filler

    Pierre Mounanga;Muhammad Irfan Ahmad Khokhar;Rana El Hachem;Ahmed Loukili

  • Influence of shrinkage-reducing admixtures on plastic and long-term shrinkage

    J. Saliba;E. Rozière;F. Grondin;A. Loukili

  • Autogenous deformations of cement pastes: Part I. Temperature effects at early age and micro–macro correlations

    Pierre Mounanga;Véronique Baroghel-Bouny;Ahmed Loukili;Abdelhafid Khelidj

  • Use of the digital image correlation and acoustic emission technique to study the effect of structural size on cracking of reinforced concrete

    S.Y. Alam;A. Loukili;F. Grondin;E. Rozière

  • Study of stress-induced velocity variation in concrete under direct tensile force and monitoring of the damage level by using thermally-compensated Coda Wave Interferometry.

    Yuxiang Zhang;Odile Abraham;Frédéric Grondin;Ahmed Loukili

  • Multi-criteria analysis of the mechanism of degradation of Portland cement based mortars exposed to external sulphate attack

    R. El-Hachem;E. Rozière;F. Grondin;A. Loukili

  • Cracking tendency of self-compacting concrete subjected to restrained shrinkage : Experimental study and modeling

    Philippe Turcry;Ahmed Loukili;Khalil Haidar;Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot

  • Calcined clay – Limestone cements: Hydration processes with high and low-grade kaolinite clays

    Guillemette Cardinaud;Emmanuel Rozière;Olivier Martinage;Ahmed Loukili

  • Can the maturity concept be used to separate the autogenous shrinkage and thermal deformation of a cement paste at early age

    Philippe Turcry;Ahmed Loukili;Laurent Barcelo;Jean Michel Casabonne

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot
Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot University of Pau and the Adour Region
Vincent Tournat
Vincent Tournat Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nele De Belie
Nele De Belie Ghent University
Abdeldjelil Belarbi
Abdeldjelil Belarbi University of Houston
Pietro Lura
Pietro Lura Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Kim Van Tittelboom
Kim Van Tittelboom Ghent University

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