Concrete strength by combined nondestructive methods simply and reliably predicted

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 739-746

  Qasrawi, Hisham Y ^a  

^a APPLIED SCIENCE PRIVATE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; RELIABILITY; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

REBOUND HAMMER TESTS; ULTRASONIC PULSE VELOCITY;

CONCRETES;

EID: 0033704025     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-8846(00)00226-X     Document Type: Article

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