Investigation of pulse velocity-strength relationship of hardened concrete

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 344-350

  Lin, Yiching ^a   Kuo, Shin Fang ^a   Hsiao, Chiamen ^b   Lai, Chao Peng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concrete strength; Mixture proportions; Nondestructive evaluation; Ultrasonic pulse velocity

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE STRENGTH; MIXTURE PROPORTIONS; ULTRASONIC PULSE VELOCITY;

AGGREGATES; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; VELOCITY;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 34547700445     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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