Experimental deterioration of highway concrete by chloride deicing salts

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 575-588

  Cody, Robert D ^a   Cody, Anita M ^a   Spry, Paul G ^a   Gan, Guo Liang ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucite; Dedolomitization Reactions; Deicing Salts; Deterioration; Electron Microprobe Analyses; Engineering Geology; Highway Concrete; Iowa; Magnesium Silicate Hydrates; Scanning Electron Microscopy

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE; ROAD; ROCK SALT; SALT;

USA, IOWA;

EID: 0030440668     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.4.575     Document Type: Article

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