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AAR-5: Rapid preliminary screening test for carbonate aggregates

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  • RILEM TC 191-ARP: ‘Alkali-Reactivity and Prevention—Assessment, Specification and Diagnosis of Alkali-Reactivity’
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  1. Sommer, H., Grattan-Bellew, P., Katayama, T., and Tang, M., ‘Development and Interlaboratory Trial of the RILEM AAR-5 Rapid Preliminary Screening Test for Carbonate Aggregates’, Tang, M., and Deng, M. (eds), Proceedings 12th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete, Beijing, October 2004, Volume I, 407–412.

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    H. Sommer

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    P. J. Nixon

  3. STATS Limited, St Albans, UK

    I. Sims

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The text presented hereunder is a general draft for general consideration. Comments should be sent to the TC Chairman Dr. Philip J. Nixon, Building Research Establishment, Garston WD2 7JR Watford, United Kingdom; Tel: +44 923 664 239; Fax: +44 923 664 786; Email: nixonp@bre.co.uk, by 30 April 2006.

TC membership—Chairman: Philip J. Nixon, UK;Secretary: Ian Sims, UK;Members: Oscar Batic, Argentina; Mario Berra, Italy; Geoff Blight, South Africa; Kevin Folliard, USA; Benoît Fournier, Canada; Stefan Góralczyk, Poland; Sylvine Guédon Dubied, France; Viggo Jensen, Norway; Tetsuya Katayama, Japan; Joe Larbi, Netherlands; Gabriel Lorenzi, Belgium; Sylva Modrý, Czech Republic; Björn Schouenborg, Sweden; Ahmad Shayan, Australia; Eberhard Siebel, Germany; Hermann Sommer, Austria; Tang Ming-shu, PR China; Niels Thaulow, USA; Børge Wigum, Iceland;Corresponding Members: Bulent Baradan, Turkey; Marc-André Bérubé, Canada; Jörgen Bokern, Germany; Steven Chak, Hong Kong SAR China; Verónica Climent Vicedo, Spain; Emmanuel Dehousse, Belgium; Deng Min, PR China; Pascal Fasseu, France; Sue Freitag, New Zealand; Bruno Godart, France; Marie de Grosbois, Canada; Gísli Gudmundsson, Iceland; Robert Haverkort, Netherlands; Hiro Kawano, Japan; Catherine Larive, France; Kefei Li, PR China; Jan Lindgård, Norway; Angel López Buendia, Spain; Du-you Lu, PR China; Claudio Manissero, USA; Christine Merz, Switzerland; Mike Ozol, USA; Terje Rønning, Norway; Nikolay Rosentahl, Russia; Ted Sibbick, USA; Danielle Sorrentino, France; Johannes Steigenberger, Austria.

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Sommer, H., Nixon, P.J. & Sims, I. AAR-5: Rapid preliminary screening test for carbonate aggregates. Mat. Struct. 38, 787–792 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479292

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