Influence of the shape and roughness of inclusions on the rheological properties of a cementitious suspension

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 393-402

  Erdogan S T ^a,b   Martys, N S ^b   Ferraris, C F ^b   Fowler, D W ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate shape; Aggregate surface texture; Bingham; Concrete rheology modeling; Experimental concrete rheology

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; GEOMETRY; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VISCOSITY;

AGGREGATE SURFACE TEXTURE; CONCRETE RHEOLOGY MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL CONCRETE RHEOLOGY;

CEMENTS;

EID: 41149126369     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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