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Draft state-of-the-art report on admixtures in high-performance concrete-part 1

  • Technical Session: 26 September 1996, Garston, UK
  • RILEM TC 158-AHC: The Role of Admixtures in High-performance Concrete
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TC Membership: Chairman: Raymundo Rivera Villarreal, Mexico;Secretary: Joseph J. Cabrera, United Kingdom;Members: Süheyl Akman, Turkey; Mony Ben-Bassat, Israel; Satish Chandra, Sweden; Edwin A. Decker, U.S.A.; Jan Desmyter, Belgium; Luiz Alfredo Falcão-Bauer, Brazil; Richard Gagné, Canada; Alfred Kern, Germany; Shigeyoshi Nagataki, Japan; Enric Vazquez, Spain.

The following text is a draft for general consideration. Comments should be sent to the TC Chairman, Professor Raymundo Rivera-Villarreal, Instituto de Ingeniería Civil, UANL, Concrete Technology Department, Apartado Postal 17, Cd. Universitaria, San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L., Mexico 66450, before 1 July 1997.

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Rivera-Villarreal, R., Akman, S., Nagataki, S. et al. Draft state-of-the-art report on admixtures in high-performance concrete-part 1. Mat. Struct. 30 (Suppl 1), 47–53 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02539276

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