Mechanical, durability and microstructural characteristics of ultra-high-strength self-compacting concrete incorporating steel fibers

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4286-4292

  El Dieb, Amr S ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Mechanical and durability characteristics (E); Microstructure (F); Ultra high strength self compacting fiber reinforced concrete (A)

Indexed keywords

CEMENT PASTE; CHLORIDE DIFFUSION; CHLORIDE PERMEABILITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FIBER VOLUME; FRACTURE PROPERTY; HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITION; INTERFACIAL BONDS; MECHANICAL AND DURABILITY CHARACTERISTICS (E); MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; MICROSTRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION; MICROSTRUCTURE (F); SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE; SPLITTING TENSILE STRENGTH; STEEL FIBERS; TEST RESULTS; ULTRA-HIGH; ULTRA-HIGH-STRENGTH SELF-COMPACTING FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE (A);

BUILDING MATERIALS; CAPILLARITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETES; DURABILITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FIBERS; FRACTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STEEL; TITRATION;

STEEL RESEARCH;

EID: 67649395516     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.04.024     Document Type: Article

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