MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concrete
Numerical assessment of failure of concrete is one of the challenging processes in civil engineering. Assumption of homogeneity of concrete is believed to be the main reason behind these issues and recent studies on concrete failure pattern point to the fact that if it is possible to create numerica...
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| author | Shaji M Jamal Neelakantan T.R. Meyyappan Palaniappan |
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| description | Numerical assessment of failure of concrete is one of the challenging processes in civil engineering. Assumption of homogeneity of concrete is believed to be the main reason behind these issues and recent studies on concrete failure pattern point to the fact that if it is possible to create numerical model consisting of individual components of concrete, say, cement gel, gravel/sand/crushed rock and the inter-facial-transition-region, separately, this can be solved to some extent. This paper describes the development of a software – MesoGen – for the simplified mesoscopic modeling of concrete by avoiding the interfacial-transition-zone. Using MesoGen, mesoscopic models of concrete were generated using real sieve analysis and concrete mix data. The generated models were compared with the actual concrete cube of same dimension and it is found that number of aggregates in each segment of sieve analysis grading curve is comparable with that in the numerical model. Also time of generation of various numerical models is compared by varying the parameters in the process and is tabulated. This software will be a useful tool for research in the field of numerical mesoscopic modeling of concrete. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1030acafb8ce4990aac08cb56e02278c2023-02-12T04:15:05ZengElsevierSoftwareX2352-71102023-02-0121101283MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concreteShaji M Jamal0Neelakantan T.R.1Meyyappan Palaniappan2Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Tamilnadu, India; Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, India; Corresponding author at: Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, India.Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Tamilnadu, IndiaCentre for Building Materials, Department of Civil Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, IndiaNumerical assessment of failure of concrete is one of the challenging processes in civil engineering. Assumption of homogeneity of concrete is believed to be the main reason behind these issues and recent studies on concrete failure pattern point to the fact that if it is possible to create numerical model consisting of individual components of concrete, say, cement gel, gravel/sand/crushed rock and the inter-facial-transition-region, separately, this can be solved to some extent. This paper describes the development of a software – MesoGen – for the simplified mesoscopic modeling of concrete by avoiding the interfacial-transition-zone. Using MesoGen, mesoscopic models of concrete were generated using real sieve analysis and concrete mix data. The generated models were compared with the actual concrete cube of same dimension and it is found that number of aggregates in each segment of sieve analysis grading curve is comparable with that in the numerical model. Also time of generation of various numerical models is compared by varying the parameters in the process and is tabulated. This software will be a useful tool for research in the field of numerical mesoscopic modeling of concrete.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711022002011Mesoscopic modelingHeterogeneous materialRandom aggregateConcrete |
| spellingShingle | Shaji M Jamal Neelakantan T.R. Meyyappan Palaniappan MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concrete SoftwareX Mesoscopic modeling Heterogeneous material Random aggregate Concrete |
| title | MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concrete |
| title_full | MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concrete |
| title_fullStr | MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concrete |
| title_full_unstemmed | MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concrete |
| title_short | MesoGen—Development of an Android application for the Mesoscopic modeling of concrete |
| title_sort | mesogen development of an android application for the mesoscopic modeling of concrete |
| topic | Mesoscopic modeling Heterogeneous material Random aggregate Concrete |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711022002011 |
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