Durability of Reactive Powder Composites: Influence of silica fume on the leaching properties of very low water/binder pastes

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Matte, V ^a   Moranville, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Leaching; Nuclear waste storage; Porosity; Reactive powder composites; SEM; Silica fume; Tritium diffusion; XRD

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DURABILITY; HYDRATES; LEACHING; PORE SIZE; POWDERS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; SILICA; TRITIUM; WATER;

REACTIVE POWDER COMPOSITES (RPC); SILICA FUME;

CEMENTS;

EID: 0033078563     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-9465(98)00025-0     Document Type: Article

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