Static and Fatigue Tests on Cementitious Cantilever Beams Using Nanoindenter

Yidong Gan1, Hongzhi Zhang2, Branko Šavija3

  • 1Microlab, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands. y.gan@tudelft.nl.

Micromachines
|November 30, 2018
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