Three-dimensional dataset of hydrating cement paste (CEM I Ladce, 391 m^2/kg Blaine, w/c=0.50) in TIFF format

A detailed description of this dataset can be found in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.108903.

This dataset contains a collection of digitized three-dimensional hardened cement paste microstructures obtained from X-ray micro-computed tomography, screened after approx. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 14, and 28 days of elapsed hydration at 20˚C in saturated conditions. Each paste specimen had a cylindrical shape (with a diameter of ~1 mm) and was screened at a designated time (as specified in the file name, e.g. “t23hrs”=23 hours of elapsed hydration) and finally saved as an uncompressed and unprocessed *.tif greyscale image data file in 16-bit image depth (as unsigned integers) using a little-endian byte sequence.

The dataset contains two sets of images:

- “full-sized” digital images stored in a three-dimensional voxel-based matrix with a fixed size of 1100x1100x1100 voxels, denoted as “CEM_I_Ladce_*” in the file name; each file size amounts to ~2.5 GB and contains the whole screened specimen with a variable voxel size in the range 1.0913 − 1.1174 µm depending on the particular specimen (as specified in the file name, e.g. “1d1174um”=1.1174 µm/voxel)

- smaller image subvolumes, denoted as Region Of Interest (ROI), extracted from the interior of the full-sized specimen from an arbitrary location, and denoted as “filteredROI_*” in the file name; this cropped ROI has a cubic shape and stores a three-dimensional voxel-based matrix with a fixed size of 500x500x500 µm³ constituted by a variable voxel count (given the fluctuating voxel size for each specimen, see above). Both the exact voxel count (i.e. three-dimensional matrix dimensions) and voxel size are further specified in each file name. A sequence of imaging filters was sequentially applied to this ROI to further enhance the contrast among the different microstructural phases, see 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2022.104798 for details.

Note that the same dataset stored in *raw format is available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7193798