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High-Performance Concrete, Really High Performance?

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Nowadays, high-performance concrete (HPC) is popular all over the world. It is the most fashionable kind of concrete and people are all flattering it. It is believed by most experts and scholars that HPC possesses good resistance to frost, permeability, drying shrinkage, cracking, and chemical corrosion, and the most important point is that HPC has the best durability and so on.

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Yang, W. (2015). High-Performance Concrete, Really High Performance?. In: The Issues and Discussion of Modern Concrete Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44567-9_13

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