Measuring Freeze and Thaw Damage in Mortars Containing Deicing Salt Using a Low-Temperature Longitudinal Guarded Comparative Calorimeter and Acoustic Emission

Advances in Civil Engineering Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 316-337

  Farnam, Yaghoob ^a   Bentz, Dale ^b   Sakulich, Aaron ^c   Flynn, Daniel ^b   Weiss, Jason ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic emission; calorimeter; concrete; deicing salts; freeze and thaw; heat flow; mortar; NaCl

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925448380     PISSN: 23791357     EISSN: 21653984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/ACEM20130095     Document Type: Article

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