Nature Communications (May 2018)

Nanoscale origins of creep in calcium silicate hydrates

  • A. Morshedifard,
  • S. Masoumi,
  • M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04174-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The nanoscale mechanisms behind the creep of calcium-silicate-hydrates remain difficult to model over long periods of time. Here, the authors use a three-staged incremental stress-marching technique to tie atomistic simulations and nanomechanical experimental measurements together.