“…Engineering structures can be seriously damaged when fire accidents occur (Guo et al, 2021). The calcium silicate hydrate (CÀSÀH) gels are the main binding phase of cement-based materials, which are widely used in high-rise buildings, bridges, and tunnels, and hence its fire-induced degradation governs the damage evolution of engineering structures (Alabdullah and Ghoniem, 2020;Chen et al, 2016Chen et al, , 2017Chen et al, , 2020aChen et al, , 2020bChen et al, , 2021Luo et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2020aZhang et al, 2020bZhao et al, 2014). Therefore, effects of temperature on Young's modulus (Odelson et al, 2007), compressive strength (Karim et al, 2018;Suh et al, 2020), thermal cracking (Fic and Szeląg, 2015;Szeląg, 2018), and pore structure (Kim et al, 2013) of cement paste have been widely investigated.…”