Determination of water-to-cement ratio in freshly mixed rapid-setting calcium sulfoaluminate concrete using 2.45 GHz microwave radiation

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 807-812

  Bescher, Eric ^a,b   Sambol, Matthew ^a   Rice, Edward K ^b   Mackenzie, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CTS Cement Manufacturing Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Drying; Fresh concrete; Microwave processing; Rapid setting cement; Sulfoaluminate

Indexed keywords

AIR PERMEABILITY; BRICK; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CONCRETES; DRYING; FLY ASH; MICROWAVES; MIXING; QUALITY CONTROL; SETTING;

FRESH CONCRETE; MICROWAVE PROCESSING; RAPID-SETTING CEMENT; SULFOALUMINATE;

CEMENTS;

EID: 1942503957     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2003.09.023     Document Type: Article

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