About microcracking due to leaching in cementitious composites: X-ray microtomography description and numerical approach

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 271-283

  Rougelot, Thomas ^a   Burlion, Nicolas ^a   Bernard, Dominique ^b   Skoczylas, Frédéric ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Cementitious composites; Endogenous and decalcification shrinkages; Leaching; Microcracking; X ray computed microtomography

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; DEGRADATION; LEACHING; MICROCRACKING; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; SHRINKAGE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

CEMENT BASED MATERIAL; CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES; CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; SYNCHROTRON X RAYS; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

EID: 72149104087     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2009.09.021     Document Type: Article

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