Properties of prefabricated building materials produced from ground pumice aggregate and binders

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 989-992

  Sahin, Sirri ^a   Orung, Ibrahim ^a   Okuroglu, Mustafa ^a   Karadutlu, Yalçin ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cement; Gypsum; Lime; Pressure method; Pumice aggregate

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVES; BINDERS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FORMING; GYPSUM; LIME;

GROUND PUMICE AGGREGATE; PRESSURE METHOD; STEAM-CURING;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 40649097307     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

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