The effect of heat treatment on the compressive strength of cement-slag mortars

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 4618-4628

  Razak, Hashim Abdul ^a   Sajedi, Fathollah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID AREA; CURING REGIMES; EARLY AGE; EARLY STRENGTH; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; ETTRINGITES; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; MIX PROPORTIONS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CURING; MORTAR; PORTLAND CEMENT; SLAGS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

EID: 79957865807     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.04.038     Document Type: Article

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