Drying cracks: Kinematics and scale laws

Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 101-107

  Colina, H ^a   Acker, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CRACK INITIATION; DRYING; SHRINKAGE; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

DESICCATION SHRINKAGE;

CONCRETE TESTING;

EID: 0033879053     PISSN: 13595997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02484164     Document Type: Article

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