HE CEMENTITIOUS NANOESTRUCTURE EXPLORED BY COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION MEANS

Abstract

If the relationship between nanotech

nology and cement can initially seem

Andrés Ayuela Fernández

Dr. en Ciencias Físicas.

Unidad de Física de Materiales,

CSIC.

Antonio Porro Gutiérrez

Dr. en Ciencias Químicas

Centro de Aplicación de

Nanomateriales (NANOC),

Tecnalia-Construcción.

Unidad de Materiales

Nanoestructurados y

Ecoeficientes para

Construcción, CSIC.

a bit exotic, even further must seem

the application of molecular simula

tion methods to its study. These

computational calculations have alre

ady demonstrated to be an excellent

tool in many fields of application like

electronics and magnetism, and they

could be equally useful applied to the

C-S-H gel, the main component of the

cement paste at the manometric scale.

Hereafter, we show part of our work

in this sense, applying the molecular

simulations to two topics as impor

tant and different as the resolution of

the C-S-H gel's nanostructure and

the calculation of its mechanical pro

perties.