The authors appreciate Bonen's discussion. He has raised a number of useful points that should be addressed. At the outset, it appears that Bonen has concluded that the preset gray levels used to identify phases within cement paste were selected based on "absolute" backscatter coefficients. This wa
A reply to further comments by D. Bonen on the paper “quantitative backscattered electron analysis of cement paste”
✍ Scribed by Hong Zhao; David Darwin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 239 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-8846
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