Microscale Testing and Modelling of Cement Paste as Basis for Multi-Scale Modelling

This work aims to provide a method for numerically and experimentally investigating the fracture mechanism of cement paste at the microscale. For this purpose, a new procedure was proposed to prepare micro cement paste cubes (100 × 100 × 100 µm3) and beams with a square cross section of 400 × 400 µm...

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Main Authors: Hongzhi Zhang, Branko Šavija, Stefan Chaves Figueiredo, Mladena Lukovic, Erik Schlangen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-11-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/11/907