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Author
Garboczi, E. J. | Bentz, D. P.
Title
Cement in the Computer Age.
Coporate
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Journal
Cementing the Future, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1,3-4, Winter 1990
Keywords
cements | 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.