Sulfate resistance of plain and blended cements exposed to wetting-drying and heating-cooling environments

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1771-1778

  Sahmaran, M ^a   Erdem, T K ^a   Yaman, I O ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blended cement; Heating cooling; Sulfate attack; Wetting drying

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DRYING; FLY ASH; GYPSUM; HEATING; WETTING;

BLENDED CEMENTS; HEATING COOLING; SULFATE ATTACK; SULFATE RESISTANT PORTLAND CEMENT (SRPC); WETTING DRYING;

PORTLAND CEMENT;

EID: 33847646815     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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