SULFUR CONCRETE FOR POLAR CONSTRUCTION

Experimental studies on sulfur concrete in the laboratory and at McMurdo Station, Antarctica are described. Sulfur concrete mixtures showed high tensile, flexural, and compressive strengths as well as high Young's Modulus in the laboratory.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Distribution limitation now removed.
• Corporate Authors:

  Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory

  Point Mugu
  Port Hueneme, CA  United States  93041
• Authors:
  • Keeton, J R
• Publication Date: 1972-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 29 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Basalt; Building materials; Compressive strength; Concrete; Construction; Flexural strength; Freezing; Grain size (Geology); Granite; Gravel; Limestone; Mechanical properties; Melting; Mixtures; Modulus of elasticity; Permeability; Polar regions; Rocks; Sand; Shrinkage; Sulfur; Tensile properties; Tensile strength; Water
• Uncontrolled Terms: Compressive properties
• Geographic Terms: Antarctica
• Old TRIS Terms: Dienes; Polar
• Subject Areas: Construction; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00143493
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NCEL-TN-1200 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 17 1977 12:00AM