20th ACBM/NIST Computer Modeling Workshop

The workshop is held every year to help transfer computational materials science techniques in concrete to researchers in
industry, academia, and government. It is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials (ACBM), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and ASTM Committees C01 and C09.
The focus of the workshop is on cement-based materials, showing how microstructure development during hydration and subsequent properties can be computed with three- dimensional models. An emphasis of the workshop is how experimental materials science data can combine synergistically with computational materials science results to help solve the complex problems of concrete. The 3- day workshop is tutorial in nature, and is intended to be useful both to those who do experimental
work and would like to learn how computer models can contribute to their research, as well as to those who themselves do computer modeling. The workshop is made up of lectures from NISTpersonnel, invited lectures from distinguished researchers in academia and government, and 15-minute talks from the workshop attendees themselves highlighting their areas of technical interest.