Prediction of ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) in concrete

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-28

  Lin, Yiching ^a   Lai, Chao Peng ^b   Yen, Tsong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concrete; Pulse velocity; Water cement ratio

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CEMENTS; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY;

CEMENT PASTE; ULTRSONIC PULSE VELOCITY; WATER CEMENT RATIO;

CONCRETES;

EID: 0037252967     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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