Microstructural features of a mortar as seen by computed microtomography

Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 989-993

  Diamond, Sidney ^a   Landis, Eric ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed microtomography; Hollow shell grains; Microstructure; Mortars; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CEMENTS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCRETES; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY; HOLLOW SHELL GRAINS; PLANAR IMAGES;

MORTAR;

EID: 35048898243     PISSN: 13595997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1617/s11527-006-9194-9     Document Type: Article

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