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Concrete Microscopy Library

Concrete Microscopy Library

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      • Magnification Progression Series: 250x
      • Magnification Progression Series: 500x
      • Magnification Progression Series: 1000x
      • Magnification Progression Series: 2000x
      • Silica Fume Addition Effects
      • Interfacial Transition Zone Image Series
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      • Morphology EDS Spectra
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    • Alkali-Silica Reaction
      • ASR Box Beam Core Series
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      • Optical Imaging – Virginia Series
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Links

Links

Below are a variety of links that may be of interest to you. After all, they’re of interest to us.

Sponsoring organizations:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials (ACBM)

Other cement and concrete microstructure links:

Electronic Monograph on Modeling the Structure and Properties of Cement-Based Materials, by E. Garboczi, D. Bentz, K. Snyder, NIST

Concrete Materials Lecture Series, by B. Mobasher, ASU

G.M. Idorn Consult’s Concrete Image Gallery

Michigan Technological University Petrographic Laboratory

Microscopy links:

Microscopy UK — a comprehesive site for microscopy

Argonne National Lab maintains a large list of links

Univ of Arizona maintains a large list of links on Electron Microscopy

Univ of Oklahoma maintains the WWW Virtual Library on microscopy

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