An interlaboratory comparison of methods for measuring rock matrix porosity

VTT Tiedotteita - Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus

Volumn , Issue 1776, 1996, Pages

  Rasilainen, Kari ^a   Hellmuth, Karl Heinz ^b   Kivekäs, Liisa ^c   Ruskeeniemi, Timo ^c   Melamed, Avner ^a   Siitari Kauppi, Marja ^d   Timonen, Jussi ^e   Valkiainen, Matti ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Comparison; Drying; Experimentation; Granite; Laboratories; Measurement; Methods; Porosity; Quality; Radioactive wastes; Rocks; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644286460     PISSN: 12350605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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