10th building materials colloquium in Cottbus

The already 10th building materials colloquium took place at the Cottbus Brandenburg Technical University (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus – BTU) on 8th and 9th March 2011. 150 representatives from companies, authorities and associations informed themselves about topics of the fields “mineral building materials” and “extraction, mining and processing technologies” and about new insights into the “alkali-silica-reaction (ASR)”. Amongst other things, it was shown that a negative result in the mortar bar test not automatically leads to an EIII-S classification. 90 % of the...

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