μic - The microstructural modelling platform
μic is a modelling framework that has been developed to enable simulations of complex particulate growths, in particular the microstructural evolution of hydrating cement paste. μic has been developed using the vector approach, which preserves the multi-scale nature of the cement microstructure. Support libraries built into the framework enable fast simulation of systems containing millions of particles, allowing every single particle in a system to be modelled and all the interactions to be calculated. The modelling framework has been developed using object oriented programming and its extensible and flexible architecture, due to this microstructural development mechanisms and algorithms can be easily added. The framework facilitates the otherwise complex task of modelling new systems and phenomena. The microstructures generated by μic can be used to obtain important information that can be used to model the evolution of the microstructure of not just cement, but any other particulate growths. Since the framework is multiscale, it has been used to model systems containing both aggregate and cement particles at the same time.
The executable jar files, course codes and documentation to use µic can be downloaded below. A package that contains some additional plugins can also be downloaded.
Jar executible of μic
Source code of μic
Additional plugins for μic that may be useful for your work
Sample input files for μic
Documentation for μic
I am not maintaining the programme anymore, but the last stable version of the programme can be downloaded above.
© 2012 Shashank Bishnoi, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi