A Validation of the Ultrasound Wave Velocity Method to Predict Porosity of Dry and Saturated Cement Paste

Table 3

Summarization of back-calculated Young’s modulus and associated errors for different inclusion shapes.

Inclusion shape	Porosity	Young’s modulus from ANSYS	Error
Sphere	5%	39,166 MPa
Circular cylinder	5%	38,399 MPa	2%
Ellipsoid with axial ratio of 1.3	5%	40,267 MPa	3%