دورية أكاديمية
A modeling and simulation framework for electrokinetic nanoparticle treatment
| العنوان: | A modeling and simulation framework for electrokinetic nanoparticle treatment |
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| المؤلفون: | Phillips, James |
| المصدر: | Doctoral Dissertations |
| بيانات النشر: | Louisiana Tech Digital Commons |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| المجموعة: | Louisiana Tech Digital Commons |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Concrete pores, Electrokinetic nanoparticle treatment, Sphere packing, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Other Computer Sciences |
| الوصف: | The focus of this research is to model and provide a simulation framework for the packing of differently sized spheres within a hard boundary. The novel contributions of this dissertation are the cylinders of influence (COI) method and sectoring method implementations. The impetus for this research stems from modeling electrokinetic nanoparticle (EN) treatment, which packs concrete pores with differently sized nanoparticles. We show an improved speed of the simulation compared to previously published results of EN treatment simulation while obtaining similar porosity reduction results. We mainly focused on readily, commercially available particle sizes of 2 nm and 20 nm particles, but have the capability to model other sizes. Our simulation has graphical capabilities and can provide additional data unobtainable from physical experimentation. The data collected has a median of 0.5750 and a mean of 0.5504. The standard error is 0.0054 at α = 0.05 for a 95% confidence interval of 0.5504 ± 0.0054. The simulation has produced maximum packing densities of 65% and minimum packing densities of 34%. Simulation data are analyzed using linear regression via the R statistical language to obtain two equations: one that describes porosity reduction based on all cylinder and particle characteristics, and another that focuses on describing porosity reduction based on cylinder diameter for 2 and 20 nm particles into pores of 100 nm height. Simulation results are similar to most physical results obtained from MIP and WLR. Some MIP results do not fall within the simulation limits; however, this is expected as MIP has been documented to be an inaccurate measure of pore distribution and porosity of concrete. Despite the disagreement between WLR and MIP, there is a trend that porosity reduction is higher two inches from the rebar as compared to the rebar-concrete interface. The simulation also detects a higher porosity reduction further from the rebar. This may be due to particles aggregating before reaching the rebar that can easily ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/dissertations/423Test; https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1395&context=dissertationsTest |
| الإتاحة: | https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/dissertations/423Test https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1395&context=dissertationsTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1FE1AC9E |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |