Water absorption into construction materials: Comparison of neutron radiography data with network absorption models

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 503-525

  Ridgway, Cathy J ^a   Gane, Patrick A C ^a   El Abd, Abd El Ghany ^a   Czachor, Andrzej ^a  

^a OMYA DEVELOPMENT AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Absorption into building materials; Liquid transport in porous media; Modelling porous materials; Porosity of structural materials; Preferred pathway flow

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WETTING;

LIQUID TRANSPORT; MERCURY INTRUSION CURVE; PREFERRED PATHWAY FLOW;

WATER ABSORPTION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER ABSORPTION; WETTING;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745507646     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-1125-7     Document Type: Article

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