Material health monitoring of concrete by means of in situ electrical conductivity measurements
 
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, USA
 
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Associate Professor and Assistant Head, Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, USA
 
 
Publication date: 2007-03-01
 
 
Cement Wapno Beton 12(2) 76-92 (2007)
 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge support received from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0134272: a CAREER AWARD granted to the second author. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily refl ect the views of the National Science Foundation. This work was conducted in the Materials Characterization and Simulation Laboratory at Purdue University; as such the authors acknowledge the support that has made this laboratory and its operation possible.
 
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