Research Article
A Mesoscopic Model for Predicting the Chloride Diffusivity’ Representative Volume Element in Concrete as a Random Composite
Table 2
RVE size estimation under different expectation errors.
| | | RVE size (mm) | RVE size/ | = 1% | = 2% | = 5% | = 1% | = 2% | = 5% |
| 0 | 1 | 458.08 | 234.49 | 96.76 | 22.90 | 11.72 | 4.84 | 5 | 451.06 | 233.49 | 97.78 | 22.55 | 11.67 | 4.89 | 10 | 432.10 | 228.70 | 98.62 | 21.61 | 11.44 | 4.93 | 25 | 423.70 | 227.17 | 99.65 | 21.19 | 11.36 | 4.98 |
| 0.08 | 1 | 429.89 | 220.33 | 91.60 | 21.49 | 11.02 | 4.58 | 5 | 420.24 | 218.00 | 91.55 | 21.01 | 10.90 | 4.58 | 10 | 409.30 | 217.22 | 94.01 | 20.47 | 10.86 | 4.70 | 25 | 401.76 | 216.51 | 95.62 | 20.09 | 10.83 | 4.78 |
| 0.16 | 1 | 404.42 | 207.46 | 85.84 | 20.22 | 10.37 | 4.29 | 5 | 398.90 | 207.36 | 87.31 | 19.95 | 10.37 | 4.37 | 10 | 394.53 | 210.34 | 91.58 | 19.73 | 10.52 | 4.58 | 25 | 401.04 | 219.99 | 99.45 | 20.05 | 11.00 | 4.97 |
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