'Mundic'-type problems: A building material catastrophe

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 467-474

  Lugg, Andrew ^a   Probert, Doug ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Concrete; Mundic

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONCRETES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEGRADATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FINANCE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WATER;

BUILDING MATERIAL CATASTROPHE; MECHANICAL WEAKENING; MUNDIC; STRUCTURAL FAULTS;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 0030234172     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-0618(95)00095-X     Document Type: Article

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