Particle packing in a model concrete at different levels of the microstructure: Evidence of an intrinsic patchy nature

Materials Characterization

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1088-1092

  Stroeven, Piet ^a   He, Huan ^a   Guo, Zhanqi ^a   Stroeven, Martijn ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microstructure; Model concrete; Particle packing; Patchy nature; Porosity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE GRAINS; CEMENT PASTE; CONCURRENT ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELING; MICROSCOPICAL OBSERVATION; MODEL CONCRETE; NON-UNIFORMITIES; PARTICLE PACKING; PARTICLE PACKINGS; PATCHY NATURE; POISSON PROCESS;

CEMENTS; MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 69949127386     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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