Concrete practices in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf

Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 275-280

  Zein Al Abideen, H M ^a,b  

^a Ministry of Public Works &   (Saudi Arabia)

^b RILEM   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOLITION; REGIONAL PLANNING; SERVICE LIFE;

CLIMATIC EFFECTS;

CONCRETES;

EID: 0032074549     PISSN: 13595997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02480426     Document Type: Article

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