Quantifying the effects of crack width, tortuosity, and roughness on water permeability of cracked mortars

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 313-320

  Akhavan, Alireza ^a   Shafaatian, Seyed Mohammad Hadi ^a   Rajabipour, Farshad ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack detection (B); Durability (C); Image analysis (B); Modeling (E); Permeability (C)

Indexed keywords

CRACK GEOMETRIES; CRACK PROFILES; CRACK WIDTH; DISK SPECIMENS; FIBER-REINFORCED MORTAR; FRACTAL BEHAVIORS; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; LOCALIZED CRACKS; PARALLEL PLATES; PREDICTION MODEL; SPLITTING TENSION; WATER PERMEABILITY;

CRACKS; DURABILITY; FRACTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MORTAR; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CRACK DETECTION;

EID: 84856320514     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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