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The Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Tailing Recycled Aggregate Concrete

Fan Xu1,2, Zhijun Li1,2, Tao Li3

  • 1School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an 710021, China.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 13, 2024
PubMed

Keywords:
compressive strengthiron ore tailingsmicrostructurerecycled coarse aggregate

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