Karen Scrivener, Francis Young, Ruben Snellings

Introduction to the Chemistry of Inorganic Cements

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An invaluable resource for concrete technologists, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students of Civil Engineering. This book details the manufacture, setting and hardening, reaction products, structure of the hardened matrix, and degradation processes in a variety of inorganic cements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780415548014
• ISBN-10: 0415548012
• Artikelnr.: 42907876

Autorenporträt

Karen Scrivener is Professor of Construction Materials at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and co-editor with Francis Young of Mechanisms of Chemical Degradation of Cement-Based Systems, also published by Taylor & Francis. Francis Young is Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois, USA and former Associate Director of the NSF Centre for Advanced Cement-Based Materials, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Characterization Methods for Cementitious Materials 3.
Manufacture of Portland Cement 4. Chemistry and Characterization of
Portland Cement Clinker 5. Hydration of Portland Cement 6. Hydration
Products 7. Microstructure of Hardened Cement Pastes 8. Properties at Early
Ages 9. Blended Portland Cements 10. Degradation Processes in
Portland-based Cements 11. Calcium Aluminate-based Cements 12. Specialty
Inorganic Cements 13. Polymer-cement Composites