Effects of Water Absorption on Performance of Concretes Subjected to Accelerated Freezing-and-Thawing Tests

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 286-293

  Gagné, Richard ^a   Popic, Aleksandra ^c   Pigeon, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Concrete; Durability; High performance concrete; Self desiccation; Silica fume; Water absorption

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; DURABILITY; FREEZING; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SILICA; THAWING; WATER ABSORPTION;

HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETES (HPC);

CONCRETES;

EID: 0042281989     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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