Concrete mixture design for hot weather: Experimental and statistical analyses

Magazine of Concrete Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 95-105

  Al Gahtani, H J ^a   Abbasi, A G F ^a,b   Al Amoudi, O S B ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; CONCRETE TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CONCRETE MIXTURES;

CONCRETE MIXING;

EID: 0032098087     PISSN: 00249831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/macr.1998.50.2.95     Document Type: Article

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