Correlation between concrete-to-concrete bond strength and the roughness of the substrate surface

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1688-1695

  Santos, Pedro M D ^a   Júlio, Eduardo N B S ^b   Silva, Vítor D ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE CASTELO BRANCO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bond; Concrete; Digital image; Roughness; Strength

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); BONDING; IMAGE PROCESSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PULL-OFF TESTS; ROUGHENING TECHNIQUES; SLANT SHEAR;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33847660998     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2006.05.044     Document Type: Article

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