- Author
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Garboczi, E. J.
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Bentz, D. P.
- Title
- Cement in the Computer Age.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Cementing the Future,
Vol. 2,
No. 1,
1,3-4,
Winter 1990
- Keywords
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cements
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computers
- Abstract
- As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That is true for scientific models of cement-based materials, as well as in the world of fashion models. Researchers from different disciplines look at models differently. Pure, practical engineers want models that will quantitatively predict the results of tests (expensive tests) based on 5.3 or fewer easily, cheaply measured parameters. Such a model will then enable them to eliminate 526 of the originally planned 1084 samples in their testing program, and thus come in under budget after all. In the model, a multitude of basic philosophical sins will be over looked as long as the results agree with test data.