Dataset of the paper "Multiscale simulation of salt crystallization-induced damage in porous materials"

This dataset, developed in the framework of the H2020 HOLAHERIS project, contains data related to a multiscale modelling strategy to simulate salt crystallization-induced damage in porous materials. The method uses (i) a state-of-the-art multiphase model for the transport/crystallization simulation. In addition, (ii) salt crystallization pressure exerted on pore walls is directly modelled on a nonlinear representative volume element (RVE) at the microscale of the porous medium. Finally, (iii) an original phenomenological damage model, trained on a dataset generated through micromechanics-based simulations on RVEs, is developed to guarantee efficiency to the proposed approach, whose effectiveness is shown via the comparison with an experimental campaign on salt-aged traditional Dutch tiles. The micromechanics-based simulation results on RVEs used to train the phenomenological model, as well as the phenomenological model, are collected herein to provide data for future comparisons.