During the initial heating of hydraulically bonded castable refractories, dehydration of cement phases causes build-up of high levels of internal steam pressure. If this pressure exceeds material strength, explosive spalling results. A probe capable of measuring internal steam pressures"in-situ" has been developed and tested. Correlation of cement calorimetry and pressure data suggests that castable heating schedules can be modified to reduce explosive spalling. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/87198 |
| Date | January 1982 |
| Creators | Hipps, DeForrest Lovell |
| Contributors | Materials Engineering |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | v, 38 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 9434721 |
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