Effect of shrinkage reducing admixture on flexural behaviors of fiber reinforced cementitious composites

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 443-450

  Wang, Jun Yan ^a   Banthia, Nemkumar ^b   Zhang, Min Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASTM C1609; Contact angle; Fiber reinforced cement composite; Flexural toughness; Shrinkage reducing admixture; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

AIR CONTENT; ASTM C1609; CRITICAL CONCENTRATION; FIBER REINFORCED CEMENT; FIBER REINFORCED CEMENT COMPOSITE; FIBER REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITE; FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR; FLEXURAL TOUGHNESS; FRESH PROPERTIES; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETES; IN-FIBER; POLYPROPYLENE FIBER; RESIDUAL STRENGTH; SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURE; SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURES;

AIR; CONTACT ANGLE; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MORTAR; POLYPROPYLENES; SHRINKAGE; SURFACE TENSION; THERMOPLASTICS;

STEEL FIBERS;

EID: 84862792693     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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