Prediction of cement paste elastic properties via computational homogenization using digital microstructures

DOI10.1002/NME.70200MaRDI QIDQ6882999zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Witold Ogierman, Iwona Pokorska, T. Burczynski

Publication date 16 December 2025

Published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/NME.70200

zbMATH Keywords

fast Fourier transformMori-Tanaka approximationrepresentative volume elementthree-phase microstructure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in equilibrium problems of solid mechanics (74Q05) Effective constitutive equations in solid mechanics (74Q15) Spectral and related methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S25)

Review text

This paper is devoted to the homogenization of cement paste. Microstructure models obtained both by simulating hydration processes and using microtomography data are considered. A three-phase microstructure model based on the Mori-Tanaka approximation scheme is proposed. Note that Mori-Tanaka scheme was formulated with the assumption that dilute dispersion is a single inclusion in an infinite matrix medium. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed model, computational homogenization based on the fast Fourier transform is performed. It is argued that the accuracy of the three-phase model is quite satisfactory for the problems under consideration. The proposed method allows one to determine local stresses due to the microstructure. The symmetry type of the obtained effective elastic tensors is investigated.

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