Influence of heterogeneity on strength and failure characterization of cement-based composite subjected to uniform thermal loading

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3382-3392

  Tang, S B ^a   Tang, C A ^a   Liang, Z Z ^a   Zhang, Y F ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cement based composite; Crack propagation; Heterogeneity; Thermal fracture

Indexed keywords

BREAK DOWN; CEMENT-BASED; COARSE AGGREGATES; FAILURE CHARACTERIZATION; FAILURE PATTERNS; FAILURE PROCESS; HETEROGENEITY; LOCAL DISORDER; MACROCRACK; MATERIAL FAILURE PROCESS ANALYSIS; MESOSCOPIC LEVELS; MORTAR MATRIX; PEAK STRENGTH; TEMPERATURE ELEVATION; THERMAL FRACTURE; THERMAL LOADINGS; THERMAL MISMATCH;

COALESCENCE; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FRACTURE; MORTAR; NUCLEATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; THERMAL LOAD;

CEMENTS;

EID: 79955601032     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2011.03.029     Document Type: Article

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