Recent Publications

Mechanics of Architected and Bio-Inspired Cement-based Materials: Experiment & Phase field-CZM Simulation

Aimane Najmeddine, Reza Moini. “Fracture Mechanics of Layered and Architected Materials”. C3 Symposium Proceedings, in celebration of Professor Shah’s 90th birthday. 2025.
Aimane Najmeddine, Reza Moini. “Role of the Weak Interface on Toughening in Layered Brittle Materials: A Coupled Phase Field-Cohesive Zone Model Approach to Fracture“. 12th International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures (FraMCoS-12), B.L.A. Pichler, Ch. Hellmich, P. Preinstorfer (Eds). 2025.
Shashank Gupta, Reza Moini, “Tough Cortical Bone-Inspired Tubular Architected Cement-based Material with Disorder”. Advanced Materials, (Featured on the Back Cover) 2313904. 2024.
Shashank Gupta, Hadi Esmaeeli, Reza Moini. “Tough and Ductile Nacre-like Cementitious Materials“. Advanced Functional Material (featured in the Back Cover): 2313516. 2024.
Arjun Prihar, Shashank Gupta, Hadi Esmaeeli, Reza Moini. “Tough Double-Bouligand Architected Concrete Enabled by Robotic Additive Manufacturing”. Nature Communications, 7498. 2024.
Aimane Najmeddine, Shashank Gupta, Reza Moini, “Coupled Large Deformation Phase-field and Cohesive Zone Model for Crack Propagation in Hard-Soft Multi-Materials“. Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106016. 2024.
Reza Moini, Fabian Rodriguez, Jan Olek, Jeffrey Youngblood, Pablo Zavattieri. “Mechanical Properties and Fracture Patterns in 3D-Printed Helical Cementitious Architected Materials Under Compression”. Materials and Structures, 170. 2024.
Fabian Rodriguez, Reza Moini, Shubham Agrawal, Christopher Williams, Pablo Zavattieri, Jan Olek, Jeffrey Youngblood, Amit Varma. “Mechanical response of Small-scale 3D-printed Steel-Mortar Composite Beams”. Cement and Concrete Composites, 105795. 2024.
Reza Moini, “Perspectives in Architected Infrastructure Materials“. RILEM Technical Letters, 8, 125-140. 2023.
Reza Moini, Ahamdreza Baghaie, Fabian Rodriguez, Pablo Zavattieri, Jeffrey Youngblood, Jan Olek, “Quantitative Microstructural Investigation of 3D-printed and Cast Cement Pastes using Micro-Computed Tomography and Image Analysis”. Cement and Concrete Research, 147: 106493. 2021.
Reza Moini, Jan Olek, Jeffrey P. Youngblood, Bryan Magee, Pablo Zavattieri, “Additive Manufacturing and Performance of Architected Cement‐Based Materials“. Advanced Materials, 30(43): 1802123. (Selected for frontispiece of the issue). 2018.
Reza Moini, Jan Olek, Bryan Magee, Pablo Zavattieri, Jeffrey Youngblood,”Additive Manufacturing and Characterization of Architectured Cement-Based Materials via X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography“. First RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, Springer. 2018.

Performance of Heterogeneous & Layered Additively Manufactured Cementitious Materials

Shashank Gupta, Rita M. Ghantous, W. Jason Weiss, Reza Moini, “Understanding Pore Network Connectivity In Additively Manufactured Cementitious Materials Using A Projected Pore Length Approach”. Under Review.
Shashank Gupta, Hadi S. Esmaeeli, Arjun Prihar, Rita M. Ghantous, W. Jason Weiss, Reza Moini, “Fracture and Transport Analysis of Heterogeneous 3D-Printed Lamellar Cementitious Materials”. Cement and Concrete Composite, 105034. 2023.
Rita M. Ghantous, Anastasiia Evseeva, Brandon Dickey, Shashank Gupta, Arjun Prihar, Hadi S. Esmaeeli, Reza Moini, Jason Weiss, “Examining Printing Directionality on the Freeze-Thaw Response of 3D-printed Cement Paste”. ACI Materials Journal, 120, No. 4. 2023.
Reza Moini, Jan Olek, Pablo Zavattieri, Jeffrey Youngblood, “Early-age Buildability-Rheological Properties Relationship in Additively Manufactured Cement paste hollow cylinders”. Cement and Concrete Composites, 131: 104538. 2022.
Reza Moini, Jan Olek, Jeffrey Youngblood, Pablo Zavattieri, “Open-span Printing Method for Assessment of Early-age Deformations of Additively Manufactured Cement-based Materials Using an Isosceles Triangle“. ASTM Symposium on Standards Development for Cement and Concrete Used in Additive Construction, STP1636. 2021.
Fabian Rodriguez, Jan Olek, Reza Moini, Pablo Zavattieri, Jeffrey Youngblood, “Linking Solids Content and Flow Properties of Mortar to their three-Dimensional Printing Characteristics“. ACI Materials Journal – Special Issue on Advances in Rheology and Additive Manufacturing. 2021.

Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics

Mahsa Rabiei, Benjamin Gorse, Reza Moini. “Vision Alignment Mechanism for Feedback Control in Robotic Additive Manufacturing with Limited Degrees of Freedom”. Under Review.

Mahsa Rabiei, Reza Moini, “Extrusion under material uncertainty with pressure-based closed-loop feedback control in robotic concrete additive manufacturing“. Automation in Construction, 2025.

Lara Tomholt, Forrest Meggers, Reza Moini. “3D-Printing Channel Networks with Cement“. Fourth RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication. Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.

Dana Daneshvar, Mahsa Rabiei, Shashank Gupta, Aimane Najmeddine, Arjun Prihar, “Geometric Fidelity of Interlocking Bodies in Two-Component Robotic Additive Manufacturing“. Fourth RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication.” Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.

Nadia Ralston, Shashank Gupta, Reza Moini, “3D-printing of Architected calcium Silicate Binders with Enhanced and In-situ Carbonation”. Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 2350768. 2024.

Reza Moini, Lara Tomholt, Shashank Gupta, Forrest Meggers, “Laser Engraved Capillary Channels in Ceramic Materials for Fluid Propagation and Surface Wetting”. US Patent Application No. 63/461,483 (Provisional). 2024.

Reza Moini, Nadia Ralston, William Makinen, Shashank Gupta, “In-line Carbonation and 3D-printing of Calcium Silicate-based Cement Paste with Cellular Architecture”. US Patent Application No. 63/461,483 (Provisional). 2023.

Reza Moini, William Makinen, “Multi-material Concrete 3D Printing with Thermoplastic and Elastomeric Polymers”. US Patent, 18/122,432, Filed September 21. 2023.
Marco Rupp, Shuichiro Hayashi, Claire Dashe, Shashank Gupta, Reza Moini, Craig Arnold, “Continuous Wave Laser Grooving of Cementitious Materials”. Applied Physics A. 129 (2): 160. 2022.

Selected Past Publications

Reza Moini, Konstantin Sobolev, Ismael Flores-Vivian, Adil Amirjanov, “Modeling and Experimental Evaluation of Aggregate Packing for Effective Application in Concrete“. ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 31(3): 04019001-10. Selected to be featured in the Editor’s Choice. 2019.
Reza Moini, Konstantin Sobolev, Ismael Flores-Vivian, Scott Muzenski, Le Pham, Steven Cramer, Mengesha Beyene, “Durability of Concrete Mixtures Containing SCMs in Rapid Chloride Permeability Test“. ACI Materials Journal, 116(5): 67–76. 2019.
Reza Moini, Ismael Flores-Vivian, Adil Amirjanov, Konstantin Sobolev, “The Optimization of Aggregate Blends for Sustainable Low Cement Concrete“. Construction and Building Materials, 93: 627–634. 2015.
Ismael Flores-Vivian, Rani Pradoto, Rza Moini, Marina Kozukhova, Vadim Patapov, Konstantin Sobolev, “The Effect of SiO₂ Nanoparticles Derived from Hydrothermal Solutions on the Performance of Portland Cement Based Materials“. Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering, 11(4): 436–445. 2017.
Ismael Flores-Vivian, Rani Pradoto, Reza Moini, Konstantin Sobolev, “The Use of Nanoparticles to Improve the Performance of Concrete“. In 5^th International Conference, NANOCON (63–68). Brno, Czech Republic: NANOCON. 2013.
Reza Moini, Amir Lakizadeh, “Concrete Workability: An Investigation on Temperature Effects Using Artificial Neural Networks“. Central Milton Keynes, UK: AuthorHouse. 2011.

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