- Author
- Kaetzel, L. J. | Clifton, J. R. | Struble, L. J.
- Title
- Guidelines for the Development of Computer Based Models in a Cementitious Materials Modeling Laboratory.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Illinois Univ., Urbana
- Report
- NISTIR 4650, August 1991, 34 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- computer models | computer platforms | software languages | software tools | software engineering | software documentation
- Abstract
- This paper presents guidelines and considerations for the development, archiving, and distribution of computer models for a centralized cementitious materials modeling laboratory. An analysis of the approach used by cement researchers to develop large complex computer models revedals the need for guidelines in selecting computer platforms, software languages and tools, software engineeirng and documentation. A modeling laboratory established at NIST associated with the NSF Center for Science and Technology of Advanced Cement-Based Materials is discussed and the important of such a facility in promoting the exchange of information (i.e., ideas, models, data). The computer models currently archived in the modeling laboratory are use as test cases to describe the facility. Institute of Standards and Technology, Building Materials Division, for exchanging and disseminating information related to cement and concrete research. The computer is accessible, remotely, through telephone lines. Messages, and computer stored files in many formats can be exchanged among cement researchers. Also, information can be retrieved and/or viewed that describes: scheduled symposia, archived computer based models, project summaries, and published papers. This document describes how to use the computer system.