A new approach to the characterisation of particle shape and surface properties of powders employed in concrete industry

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1154-1162

  Felekoglu, Burak ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Powder; PSD; SEM; Surface morphology

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE INDUSTRY; CONCRETES; CRYSTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OXIDE MINERALS; POWDERS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; QUARTZ; SECONDARY EMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

ACCURATE; CHARACTERISATION; GRINDING; GROUND MATERIALS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE; IMAGE AREAS; INERT POWDERS; NEW APPROACHES; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE SHAPES; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; POSSIBLE QUANTIFICATIONS; PRACTICAL; PSD; REACTIVE POWDER CONCRETES; SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETES; SEM; SEM IMAGES; SHAPE CHARACTERISTICS; TWO TYPES;

SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 54349103213     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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