Lightweight cement mortars: Advantages and inconveniences of expanded perlite and its influence on fresh and hardened state and durability

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1798-1806

  Lanzón, Marcos ^a   Garcia Ruiz P A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Quimica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Durability; Lightweight aggregates; Mechanical strength; Sorptivity; Water absorption; Water retentivity; Workability

Indexed keywords

DURABILITY; LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE; SORPTION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WATER ABSORPTION;

CEMENT MORTARS; LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATES; WATER RETENTIVITY; WORKABILITY;

MORTAR;

EID: 43749104395     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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