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Fibre concrete materials

A report prepared by RILEM Technical Committee 19-FRC

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Majumdar, A.J., Swamy, R.N., Bar-Shlomo, S. et al. Fibre concrete materials. Mat. Constr. 10, 103–120 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02474859

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