University of Mississippi
Mechanical Properties Of Portland Cement And Its Constituents At The Nano-Level
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe following is a summary of research for a portion of the project titled Nano to Continuum Multi-Scale Modeling Techniques and Analysis For Cementitious Materials Under Dynamic Loading in association with North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and the US Army. This research investigates several attempts at creating a better Portland cement model at the atomistic level through molecular dynamics simulations. These models are modified to simulate damage to the basic cement structure, and are simulated using several combinations of forcefields and molecular dynamics tools. Experimental techniques such as nanoindentation, atomic force microscopy, and x-ray diffraction are applied to Portland cement samples to correlate mechanical properties among these techniques, as well as the numerical simulations.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.S. in Engineering Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Civil Engineering
- Year dc:date.available
- 2013
Author and committee
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- French, Brent
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Ahmed Al-Ostaz
- Arunachalam M. Rajendran
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/534
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1533