Mechanical and radioactivity shielding performances of mortars made with colemanite, barite, ground basaltic pumice and ground blast furnace slag

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 177-183

  Binici, Hanifi ^a   Aksogan, Orhan ^b   Sevinc, Ahmet Hayrullah ^a   Kucukonder, Adnan ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TOROS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Barite; Colemanite; Ground basaltic pumice; Ground blast furnace slag; Radioactivity

Indexed keywords

COLEMANITE; COMPRESSIVE AND FLEXURAL STRENGTHS; GROUND BASALTIC PUMICES; GROUND BLAST FURNACE SLAGS; LINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; MEDICAL BUILDINGS; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; SHIELDING PERFORMANCE;

ADDITIVES; BARITE; BORATE MINERALS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; MORTAR; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SLAGS;

BLAST FURNACES;

EID: 84886264633     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.09.033     Document Type: Article

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