High-Performance Cement-Based Concrete Composites, Special Vo... - 9781574981995

High-Performance Cement-Based Concrete Composites, Special VolumeProceedings of the Indo-U.S. Workshop on High-Performance Cement-Based Concrete Composites, Chennai, India 2005\nAuthor(s): Joseph J. Biernacki, Surendra P. Shah, N. Lakshmanan, S. Gopalakrishnan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Wiley-American Ceramic Society\nISBN-13: 9781574981995, 978-1574981995\nSynopsis\nThe world's infrastructure is largely built of concrete. With growing populations in the developing countries of the world, such as India, and with the decay of existing infrastructure in developed countries, such as the [url] the need for new materials with improved properties has become as imperative now as ever. High-performance concrete composites that include fibers and particulate matter along with advanced chemical admixtures and complex ternary and even quaternary cement blends represent a growing proportion of the concrete being used and would possibly be th.