Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1457962 | Cement and Concrete Research | 2007 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Scanning Electron Microscopy Image Analysis (SEM-IA) was used to quantify the degree of alkali silica reaction in affected microbars, mortar and concrete prisms. It was found that the degree of reaction gave a unique correlation with the macroscopic expansion for three different aggregates, stored at three temperatures and with two levels of alkali. The relationships found for the concretes and the mortars overlap when normalised by the aggregate content. This relationship seems to be linear up to a critical reaction degree which coincides with crack initiation within the reactive aggregates.
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Authors
M. Ben Haha, E. Gallucci, A. Guidoum, K.L. Scrivener,