Investigation of Dispersion Levels of Silica Fume in Pastes, Mortars, and Concrete

American Concrete Institute, ACI Special Publication

Volumn SP-212, Issue , 2003, Pages 1019-1034

  Baweja, D ^a   Cao, T ^b   Bucea, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ARUP   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Densified; Dispersion; Durability; High performance concrete; Scanning electron microscopy; Serviceability; Silica fume; Strength regression; Undensified

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; CONCRETE MIXING; DISPERSIONS; DURABILITY; HARDENING; LIME; MIXING; MORTAR; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA FUME;

CONCRETE ELEMENTS; CONCRETE PROPERTIES; CONCRETE SAMPLES; DISPERSION LEVELS; LABORATORY STUDIES; SERVICEABILITY PROBLEMS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; SUPERPLASTICISERS;

CONCRETE MIXTURES;

EID: 85111697673     PISSN: 01932527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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