New Strength Model Based on Water-Cement Ratio and Capillary Porosity

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 311-318

  Pann, K S ^a   Yen, Tsong ^b   Tang, Chao Wei ^a   Lin, T D ^c  

^a CHENG SHIU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Capillary; Compressive strength; Hydration; Water cement ratio

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETES; HYDRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER;

CEMENT PASTES;

CEMENTS;

EID: 0043284258     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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