Are deicing salts necessary to promote scaling in concrete?

Journal of Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 589-598

  Fabbri, Antonin ^a,c   Coussy, Olivier ^b   Fen Chong, Teddy ^c   Monteiro, Paulo M ^d  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Durability; Pressures; Spalling; Thermoelasticity

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; GRADIENT METHODS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (LIQUID + LIQUID) EQUILIBRIUM; CEMENT PASTES; DE-ICING SALTS; DIFFUSIVITY; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FREEZING THAWING CYCLES; FROST ACTION; HIGH THERMAL; ICE CRYSTALS; LIQUID WATER TRANSPORT; MATERIAL PARAMETERS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; PORE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION (PSD); PORO-MECHANICS; SKIN DAMAGE; SURFACE SCALING;

CONCRETES;

CONCRETE; COUPLING; DURABILITY; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SALINITY; SPALLING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOELASTICITY;

EID: 45749143558     PISSN: 07339399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2008)134:7(589)     Document Type: Article

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