Correlating washout to strength loss of underwater concrete

Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers: Construction Materials

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 153-162

  Assaad, Joseph J ^a   Daou, Yehia ^b   Salman, Hadi ^b  

^a Manager of R and D Holderchem Building Chemicals SAL ^*  (Lebanon)

^b BEIRUT ARAB UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Concrete structures; Concrete technology manufacture; Strength testing of materials

Indexed keywords

ANTI-WASHOUT; CONCRETE STRUCTURES; CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRY CONDITION; FLOW RESISTANCE; FREE WATER; FRESH AND HARDENED PROPERTIES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; RESIDUAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; STRENGTH LOSS; TEST METHOD; TEST RESULTS; UNDERWATER CONCRETES; WASHOUT MEASUREMENTS; WATER DILUTION; WATER HEADS;

HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MATERIALS TESTING; SILICA FUME; UNDERWATER CONSTRUCTION;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

EID: 79957512410     PISSN: 1747650X     EISSN: 17476518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/coma800035     Document Type: Article

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