Acquisition of Instrumentation for the Research and Development of High-Performance Cementitious Composites

安萨里，法哈德这是一项仪器仪表奖。一种新型混凝土——高性能混凝土（HPC）正在兴起，其性能不能通过常规混凝土知识的推断来预测。它为将混凝土技术的技术基础从经验主义转移到材料科学提供了强有力的激励，以确保高性能计算的发展有一个坚实的基础，并利用材料科学和技术的发展，以及预测使用寿命和控制胶凝复合材料设计寿命的技术。高性能胶凝复合材料研究计划的发展受到缺乏相关仪器支持这些计划的阻碍。该仪器将提高正在进行的研究状态，并将为大学提供研究和开发高性能混凝土的工具。在高性能塑料的制造和加工过程中，从选择和制备组成材料、配比和混合开始，一直到放置和固化，迫切需要开发方法来优化关键程序。本项目所研制的设备将用于细颗粒工业副产物的表征研究，为高性能混凝土的开发提供依据。* * *

9413725 Ansari, Farhad This is an instrumentation award. A new class of concrete, high- performance concrete (HPC), is emerging, whose performance cannot be predicted by extrapolation from knowledge of conventional concrete. It provides a strong incentive to move the technical basis for concrete technology from empiricism to materials science to ensure that developments in HPC have a solid foundation and draw on developments in materials science and technology, and in techniques for prediction of service life and control of the design life of cementitious composites. The development of research programs in high-performance cementitious composites is hindered by the lack of pertinent instrumentation to support such programs. The instrumentation will enhance the state of ongoing research, and will provide the university with tools for the research and development of high-performance concrete. There is a critical need for development of methodologies for the optimization of the critical procedures in the manufacture and processing of HPC, beginning with the selection and preparation of the constituent materials, their proportioning and mixing, and continuing through placing and curing. The equipment in this project will be employed in the research for characterization of fine particle industrial by- products for the development of high-performance concretes. ***