How to use this Electronic Monograph: Modeling and Measuring the Sturcture and Properties of Cement-Based Materials

How to use this monograph

For someone working in concrete, and is new to the modeling of concrete, we suggest that you start with the introduction and work straight through the monograph, Part I. There are some who work with other materials and don't know much about concrete, and who are actually more interested in the modeling techniques themselves. For this category of people, we have included an appendix (Appendix I-1) that will introduce non-cement researchers to concrete and summarize the main modelling results. This is also an appropriate review for people working in the field of cement-based materials. Part II of the monograph focuses more on general, non-concrete applications of models.

The main way the text is linked together is via the references in each section. The references that are included in this monograph have been made into links, which will lead to the appropriate section. Also, each chapter is linked back to the table of contents, and the following and preceding chapter. In each section, there are links going forward and backward to the next part of the section, as well as links going back to the chapter itself or again the table of contents. There is also a search engine (electronic index) that will search the monograph for key words. In each chapter, for most sections there is a statement of approximately how many pages of text and how many bytes of figures there are for that entry.

A PDF version of an article about this monograph that recently appeared in Concrete International is also available. Many parts of the monograph are also available, in their original published format, in pdf files. This file, if available, is in the "Main" document for each section. Many parts of the monograph are also available in pdf format. In addition, many of the actual computer programs used in the research described in the monograph are available for downloading. For the finite element/finite difference programs, see Part II Chapter 2 of this document, and for the hard core/soft shell concrete microstructural models see Part I Chapter 6, Section 8.

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