Influence of porosity on compressive and tensile strength of cement mortar

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 869-874

  Chen, Xudong ^a   Wu, Shengxing ^a   Zhou, Jikai ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cement mortar; Porosity; Strength

Indexed keywords

CEMENT BASED MATERIAL; CEMENT MORTARS; INDIRECT TENSILE; SPLITTING TENSILE STRENGTH; STRENGTH; COMPRESSIVE AND TENSILE STRENGTHS;

CEMENTS; MORTAR; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84872076386     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.11.072     Document Type: Article

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