Rheological control in production of engineered cementitious composites

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 357-366

  Yang, En Hua ^a   Sahmaran, Mustafa ^b   Yang, Yingzi ^c   Li, Victor C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cementitious; Fiber reinforced concrete; Process; Rheology; Tensile properties

Indexed keywords

BINDER RATIO; CEMENTITIOUS; CLASS C FLY ASHES; CLASS-F; DESIGN THEORY; ENGINEERED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES; FIBER DISTRIBUTION; FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE; FLOW TESTS; FRESH AND HARDENED PROPERTIES; FRESH PROPERTIES; HIGH RANGE WATER REDUCER; MARSH CONE; MATRIX; MICRO-MECHANICAL; MIXTURE DESIGN; PLASTIC VISCOSITY; PRACTICAL METHOD; PROCESS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SLUMP FLOW TEST; TEST RESULTS; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETES; ELASTICITY; FIBERS; FLY ASH; IMPACT STRENGTH; MORTAR; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTICITY; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RHEOLOGY; TENSILE STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; VISCOSITY;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 68349085590     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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