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Performance-Based Specifications and Control of Concrete Durability

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This chapter presents an overview on several performance-based approaches for concrete durability specification and conformity assessment of the as-built structure.

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  1. University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    H. Beushausen & M. G. Alexander

  2. Eduardo Torroja Institute (IETcc-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    C. Andrade & R. d’Andréa

  3. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    M. Basheer

  4. Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC), Chelles, France

    V. Baroghel-Bouny

  5. Proceq SA, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland

    D. Corbett

  6. Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil—LNEC, Lisboa, Portugal

    A. Gonçalves

  7. Rijkswaterstaat Bouwdienst, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    J. Gulikers

  8. TFB, Zurich, Switzerland

    F. Jacobs

  9. National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Lisboa, Portugal

    A. V. Monteiro

  10. Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

    S. V. Nanukuttan

  11. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    M. Otieno

  12. TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

    R. Polder

  13. Materials Advanced Services, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    R. Torrent

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Beushausen, H. et al. (2016). Application Examples of Performance-Based Specification and Quality Control. In: Beushausen, H., Fernandez Luco, L. (eds) Performance-Based Specifications and Control of Concrete Durability. RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7309-6_8

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