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Janusz Kobaka1

  • 1Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|June 2, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
PCAcompressive strengthconcrete mix designconsistencysplitting tensile strength

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