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Measuring the long-term durability of new types of concrete and concrete technologies is crucial to their acceptance in the marketplace. This long-needed handbook of analytical techniques provides a complete reference to the cutting-edge procedures used to test today's innovative materials. Ranging from chemical and thermal analysis, to IR and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, to Scanning Electron Microscopy, x-ray diffraction, computer modeling and more, the book provides first-hand explanations of modern methodsùcontributed by 24 leading scientists, many of whom actually developed or refined the techniques. The book includes many analytic techniques, applied to a wide range of organic, inorganic and composite materials and additives.Perfect for practitioners, students, and professional standards writers, the handbook is highly useful for scrutinizing materials in a variety of environments. It takes into account the many factors that affect the qualities of concreteùtemperature, pore and pore-size distribution, surface area, and exposureùgathering diverse evaluation methods into one convenient resource.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Determination of Porosity and Water Absorption of Aggregates
• 1 Concrete Science Formation of Portland Cement
• 2 Petrographic and Associated Technological Methods for Evaluation of Concrete Aggregates Chemical Tests
• Aggregates that Release Alkalis into the Pore Solution in Concrete
• Shape and Surface Texture of Aggregates
• 3 Chemical Methods of Analysis of Concrete Hardened Concrete Analysis Procedures
• Instrumental Techniques for Determining the Potential Reactivity of Siliceous Aggregates
• Staining Techniques for Aggregates
• Polymorphism in Silicates
• Mortars, Grouts and Plasters
• 4 Thermal Analysis Cement Clinker
• Syntheses of Cement Phases
• Hydration of Cement
• Hydration of Calcium Silicates
• Hyrdration of C 3 A and C 4 AF
• Anhydrous Cement and its Phases
• Durability
• 5 IR Spectroscopy The Spectra of Rocks, Minerals, Clays, Etc
• Spectra of Fly Ash and Slag
• Studies on Concrete
• Solid Solution
• Hydration Studies
• Investigations of Portland Cement Hydration
• Miscellaneous Studies
• 6 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Structural Investigations of Anhydrous Cement Phases
• Structural Investigations of Calcium Silicate Hydrates (C-S-H) and Related Crystalline Phases
• Alkali Silica Gel
• Investigations of Aluminate Cement Hydration
• Waste Solidification and Stabilization
• Interpretation of Concrete Deterioration from SEM/EDXA
• 8 X-Ray Diffraction Developments in Instrumentation
• Structural Investigations of Raw Materials
• 7 Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Microanalysis of Concretes Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Microanalysis
• Concrete Under the Sem
• XRD of Hydrated Cement
• Computers in X-Ray Diffractometry and Software Applications
• X-Ray Diffractometry of Clinker and Cement
• Rheological Behaviors of Cement Paste
• XRD in Concrete Chemistry
• XRD in Miscellaneous Cementitious Systems
• 9 Rheology Suspensions
• Chemical Interactions in Porous Media
• Concrete
• Rheometers
• 10 Dimensional Changes Energetics of Adsorption
• Volume Instability of Porous Solids
• Physicochemical Interactions in Porous Media
• 11 Miniaturized Techniques Compacted Powders and Hydrated Cement Pastes as Model Porous Systems
• Creep and Drying Shrink-age Measurements
• Gas Adsorption Methods
• The Minis-lump Test
• 12 Techniques for Corrosion Investigation in Reinforced Concrete Reinforcing Steel Corrosion in Concrete
• Corrosion Assessment Techniques
• 13 Surface Area Measurements Techniques of Surface Area Measurement
• 14 Pore Structure The Helium Inflow Technique
• Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry
• Alternating Current Impedance Spectroscopy (ACIS) for Pore Structure Characterization
• The Solvent Replacement Tech-nique
• Trimethylsilyation
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Physico-Mechanical Behaviors of Cement Systems - Pore Structure Relationships
• 15 Silicate Polymerization Analysis Complexometric Analysis
• Diffusion Tests
• Solid State 29 Si NMR Spectroscopy
• 16 Permeation Analysis Definitions and Transport Mechanisms
• Adsorption Tests
• Factors Influencing Permeation Tests
• Absorption Tests
• Permeability Tests
• Pullout Test
• Relationship Between Permeation Properties and Durability of Concrete
• 17 NDT Techniques Resonant and Pulse Velocity Methods
• Surface Hardness Methods
• Pull-Off Tests
• Break-Off Method
• Maturity Method
• Combined Methods