Computational Materials Science of Cement-Based Materials: An Education Module

摘要

An education module demonstrating the principles of computational materialsscience has been developed. The module consists of: software that executes on a personal computer, and this NIST Technical Note, which provides documentation and instructions for using the computer software. The computer programs are available for both DOS-compatible PC and Macintosh computing environments. Four separate computer programs illustrate the development of microstructure during cement hydration, mercury intrusion porosimetry, percolation of overlapping ellipses and rectangles as a function of aspect ratio, and percolation of non-overlapping hard cores each encompassed by a soft overlapping shell.