Towards Improved Understanding of Damage and Fracture of High-Performance Cementitious Materials by Development of Mesoscale Analysis Capabilities: 3-D microstructure reconstruction and FE Simulations
Abstract
In high-performance cementitious-based materials, meso and microstructural features such as reinforcements, pores and micro or macro cracks plays an essential role in their mechanical response, driving both damage and failure mechanisms. Due to the lack of realistic description of these three-dimensional (3-D) microstructural features, predictive capabilities of damage evolution in such materials are lacking. The over-reaching goal of this proposal is to develop a problem-oriented set of computational capabilities for an accurate and efficient 3-D reconstruction of large volume and high-resolution 3-D microstructural damage data acquired by X-ray microtomography for cementitious-based materials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 2016
- Source ID
- FA95501510486
Entities
People
- Jose Luis Alves
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of Minho