Imagination that came to me 2 years ago. Thinking about a single software in concrete that can give the accurate value of every property including workability, shrinkage, durability, mechanical properties etc by simply putting content, chemical and physical properties of all ingredients and other influencing factors. The base of this idea was to reduce time-consuming and costly experiments to know the behaviour of this material.
Concrete is a heterogeneous material and too complex to arrive at such a software to predict Mechanical properties, durability and other such properties of green and hardened concrete.
you can use ABAQUS , but the concrete is a non homogenies material as mentioned above , so you have to make many trails on site and compare between its results from ABAQUS , to obtain parameters to over come the uncertainty of the non homogeny of the concrete
ATENA software, a trademark of Cervenka Consulting is the best option for this purpose.
by we can test our mix theoretically to predict the behavior we have to do some experiments
This can be done in the form of simulation by modeling rheological and mechanical properties of concrete. Workability can be assessed by Bingham model and strength can be modelled by Temperature v/s strength relationship of concrete. Though this is an abstract idea but we have a possibility of modelling some properties.
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