Guidelines for the Development of Computer Based Models in a Cementitious Materials Modeling Laboratory

摘要

The paper presents guidelines and considerations for the development, archiving, and distribution of computer models for a centralized cementitious materials modeling laboratory. An analysis of the approach used by cement researchers to develop large complex computer models reveals the need for guidelines in selecting computer platforms, software languages and tools, software engineering and documentation. A modeling laboratory established at NIST associated with the NSF Center for Science and Technology of Advanced Cement-Based Materials is discussed and the important of such a facility in promoting the exchange of information (i.e. ideas, models, data). The computer models currently archived in the modeling laboratory are used as test cases to describe the facility.