Moisture transport in initially fully saturated concrete during drying

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-106

  Šelih, Jana ^a,b   Sousa, Antonio C M ^a   Bremner, Theodore W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b SLOVENIAN NATIONAL BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Concrete; Darcy flow; Drying; Gravimetric method; Heat and mass transport; Moisture content distribution; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETES; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DRYING; FORECASTING; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MOISTURE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

DARCY FLOW; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOISTURE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; SATURATED CONCRETE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CONCRETE; DRYING;

CONCRETE; DRYING; FLUID FLOW;

EID: 0030184057     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00175604     Document Type: Article

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