Structural models of randomly packed Tobermorite-like spherical particles: A simple computational approach

Abstract

In this work, and in order to bring together the atomistic and colloidal viewpoints, we will present a Monte Carlo computational scheme which reproduces the colloidal packing of nano-spherical crystalline tobermorite-like particles. Different Low Density (LD) CS- H and High Density (HD) C-S-H structures will be developed just by varying the computational packing parameters. Finally, the structures resulting from our computational experiments will be analyzed in terms of their densities, surface areas and their mechanical properties.

Keywords

• c-s-h gel
• colloidal model
• modelling