Engineering properties and economics of soil cement feedyard surfacing

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1645-1649

  Parker, D B ^a,c   Mehlhorn, J E ^b   Brown, M S ^a   Bressler, S C ^a  

^a WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c Box 60998 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Concrete; Earthen; Feedlot; Feedyard; Fly ash; Manure; Soil cement; Surface

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; COSTS; HARD FACING; MANURES; PORTLAND CEMENT; SOILS;

ANIMAL PERFORMANCE; COMPACTED MIXTURES; SURFACING ROADS;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; CEMENT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETE; ENGINEERING; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL PROPERTY; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

AGRICULTURE; COMPRESSION STRENGTH; COSTS; MIXTURES; PORTLAND CEMENT; SOIL;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; FRAXINUS;

EID: 11144332490     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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