Improving the performance of cement-based composites containing superabsorbent polymers by utilization of nano-SiO2 particles

Materials and Design

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-101

  Pourjavadi, Ali ^a   Fakoorpoor, Seyed Mahmoud ^a   Khaloo, Alireza ^a   Hosseini, Payam ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

A. Concrete; A. Nano materials; A. Polymer

Indexed keywords

AUTOGENOUS SHRINKAGE; CEMENT BASED COMPOSITES; CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; COMPRESSIVE AND FLEXURAL STRENGTHS; DESWELLING; INTERNAL CURING; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; NANO- SIO; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE; POZZOLANIC; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SETTING TIME; SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BENDING STRENGTH; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84862291214     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2012.05.030     Document Type: Article

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