Plastic shrinkage of mortars with shrinkage reducing admixture and lightweight aggregates studied by neutron tomography

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 238-245

  Wyrzykowski, Mateusz ^a,b   Trtik, Pavel ^a,c   Münch, Beat ^a   Weiss, Jason ^d   Vontobel, Peter ^c   Lura, Pietro ^a,e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Laboratory for Neutron Scattering Villigen   (Switzerland)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Curing (A); Drying (A); Fresh concrete (A); Neutron tomography; Shrinkage (C)

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CONCRETES; CURING; DRYING; EVAPORATION; MORTAR; NEUTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY; WETTING;

DRYING (A); FRESH CONCRETE; LIGHT WEIGHT AGGREGATE; NEUTRON TOMOGRAPHY; PLASTIC SHRINKAGE CRACKINGS; SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURE (SRA); SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURES; WATER-TO-CEMENT RATIOS;

SHRINKAGE;

EID: 84927127075     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2015.03.013     Document Type: Article

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