No other material can compete with concrete
It’s safe to say that the world as we know it would be quite different without concrete. Following its invention in the 19th century, modern concrete – or Portland cement – quickly found its place in the building industry. This novel material could be used to rapidly build roads, bridges, dams and many other types (…)
Concrete 2017
Know your cement, get greener concrete
by ETH Zurich An international team of scientists has created a new database of molecular dynamics models that simulate the properties of cement in all its varieties. It’s intended to help fine-tune this component of concrete and curtail emissions in its manufacturing process.Cement is used to bind concrete, the most-used construction material in the world (…)
Database clarifies bottom-up design of cement
The database is called cemff, for Cement Force Fields. It gathers methods for simulating force-field parameters for the various types of inorganic minerals present in cement, which is used to bind concrete, the most-used construction material in the world. In this case, the force field is the collection of parameters scientists use to build computer models of atomic (…)