Ultrasound monitoring of the influence of different accelerating admixtures and cement types for shotcrete on setting and hardening behaviour

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2087-2094

  De Belie, N ^a   Grosse, C U ^b   Kurz, J ^b   Reinhardt, H W ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration (A); Admixture (D); Cement (D); Shotcrete; Workability (A)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; HARDENING; MIXTURES; MORTAR; SHOTCRETING; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ADMIXTURES; SHOTCRETE; WORKABILITY;

CEMENTS;

EID: 27744513171     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2005.03.011     Document Type: Article

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