Mechanisms of radon exhalation from hardening cementitious materials

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 404-413

  Kovler, Konstantin ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ACI Committee 236 ^*

Author keywords

Humidity; Hydration; Microstructure; Porosity; Portland cement; Radioactivity; Radon exhalation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CEMENT MANUFACTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEWATERING; FLUID MECHANICS; GAS ADSORPTION; HARDENING; HYDRATION; MECHANISMS; PORTLAND CEMENT; STAGES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACES;

CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; DORMANT PERIOD; HIGH EVAPORATION RATE; HUMIDITY; HYDRATION HEAT; MAIN EFFECTS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROSTRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHYSICAL ADSORPTION; POROSITY; PORTLAND; RADIOACTIVITY; RADON CONCENTRATIONS; RADON EMANATION; RADON EXHALATION; RADON FLUX; RADON GAS; SAMPLE SURFACES; SHARP INCREASE; SOLID SURFACES; STAGE III; TEMPERATURE; TIME DEPENDENCES;

RADON;

EID: 48849089296     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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