Building and Fire Research Laboratory

CEMHYD3D

Background

System Requirements

CEMHYD3D is written in C and Fortran and will compile using any standard compilers. 64 MB of RAM is generally recommended.

Downloading the Software

Copy the files contained in the directory, "M:\software\cemhyd3d" (where "M:" is the drive letter of your CD-rom drive) to a clear directory and compile the programs genpart3d.c, rand3d.f, sinter3d.c, stat3d.c, and disreal3d.c. These programs have been pre-compiled for the Windows 9x/NT/2000 computer platform.

On the PC, a pre-compiled version of CEMHYD3D may be installed by opening and running the setup program cemhyd3d_setup.exe.

If you have a problem with CEMHYD3D, please report it to dale.bentz@nist.gov

Users Manual

The users manual is available as NISTIR 6485. The manual contains an overview of the of the algorithms employed in CEMHYD3D, descriptions of the programs, the inputs and outputs for CEMHYD3D, and example applications.

Supporting Publications

Publications which support CEMHYD3D include:

1. Bentz, D.P., CEMHYD3D: A Three-Dimensional Cement Hydration and Microstructure Development Modelling Package. Version 2.0 NISTIR 6485, U.S. Department of Commerce, Apr. 2000.

2. Bentz, D.P., Modelling Cement Microstructure: Pixels, Particles, and Property Prediction, Materials and Structures, 32, 187-195, 1999.

3. Bentz, D.P., Garboczi, E.J., Haecker, C.J., and Jensen, O.M., Effects of Cement Particle Size Distribution on Performance Properties of Cement-Based Materials, Cement and Concrete Research, 29, 1663-1671, 1999.

4. Bentz, D.P., Waller, V., and de Larrard, F., Prediction of the Adiabatic Temperature Rise in Conventional and High-Performance Concretes Using a 3-D Microstructural Model , Cement and Concrete Research, 28 (2), 285-197, 1998.

5. Bentz, D.P., Three-Dimensional Computer Simulation of Cement Hydration and Microstructure Development, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 80 (1), 3-21, 1997.