Effect of the water/cement ratio on concrete behavior under extreme loading

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1867-1888

  Vu, Xuan Hong ^a   Malecot, Yann ^a   Daudeville, Laurent ^a   Buzaud, Eric ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES DE GRAMAT   (France)

Author keywords

Concrete; Criterion; Experiment; High confinement; Triaxial test; Water cement ratio

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC IMPACT; CEMENT MATRIX; CONCRETE BEHAVIOR; CONCRETE COMPOSITION; CONCRETE SAMPLES; HARDENED CONCRETE; HIGH CONFINEMENT; HIGH STRESS; HIGH-CAPACITY; LOADING PATH; NEAR FIELDS; STATIC TESTS; STRESS LEVELS; TRIAXIAL LOADING; TRIAXIAL TEST; WATER/CEMENT RATIO;

CEMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; LOADING; STATISTICAL TESTS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

PLASMAS;

CEMENT; CONCRETE; LOADING TEST; POROSITY; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 70450147907     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.796     Document Type: Article

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