Effect of coarse aggregate size and matrix quality on ITZ and failure behavior of concrete under uniaxial compression

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 633-638

  Akçaoǧlu, Tülin ^a   Tokyay, Mustafa ^b   Çelik, Tahir ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Failure behavior; Interfacial transition zone; w c ratio

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULI; MICROCRACKS; MOISTURE; MORTAR; POISSON RATIO; PORTLAND CEMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DEFORMATION RATES; MORTAR MATRICES; SURFACE TEXTURE; WATER CONTENT;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 17144446237     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-9465(03)00092-1     Document Type: Article

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