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Volume 4, Issue 2
1 February 1986
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Structural Survey
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Review Article| February 01 1986

Durability of cementatious products and concrete Available to Purchase

H. McArthur
H. McArthur
Senior Lecurer in Building Science at the School of Land and Building Studies, Leicester Polytechnic
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6844
Print ISSN: 0263-080X
© MCB UP Limited
1986
Structural Survey (1986) 4 (2): 115–129.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006230

Introduction Concrete is a mixture of naturally occurring geological aggregates bonded together by a cementitious agent which ‘sets’ by reacting with water. This setting process is called ‘hydration’ and is not a dissolution process. The advantages of concrete are as follows:

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