Below are copies (in PDF format), or links to, articles on silica-fume concrete from industry publications, relevant ACI Committee documents and ASTM's specification for silica fume.

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Life-365 Service Life Prediction Model - Version 2.0 by M.A. Ehlen, M.D.A. Thomas & E.C. Bentz Long-Term Chloride Penetration Resistance of Bridge Decks Made With Silica Fume Concretes R.D. Hooton, E. Bentz, and T. Kojundic In-service Performance of High-Performance Concrete Bridge Decks Sreenivas Alampalli and Frank Owens In Transportation Research Record 1696 Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2000. Evaluation of Bridge Deck Overlays Concrete International, August 1997 Influence of Silica Fume on Chloride Resistance of Concrete R.D. Hooton, et al. Presented at the PCI/FHWA International Symposium on HPC, October, 1997 Silica Fume Resurges Concrete Products, March 1996 Addressing Parking Garage Corrosion with Silica Fume Thomas G. Weil, from Transportation Research Record 1204, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1988. Building Marine Structures with Structural Lightweight Aggregate Concrete Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute February 2001

Silica Fume for Concrete Bridge Decks Concrete Construction February 2007 HPC Bridge Views Newsletters Published by the FHwA and NCBC, HPC Bridge Views is a bimonthly newsletter providing timely information on High Performance Concrete as it is used in transportation structures. Why use high-performance concrete? Concrete Products, March 1999 As Concrete Strength Record Jumps 36% Civil Engineering, 1987 HP Concrete Flexes its Muscles Roads & Bridges, April 1997 Silica Fume in Shotcrete Shotcrete the publication of the American Shotcrete Association, Winter 2003 John Wolsiefer, Sr., and Dudley R. Morgan Originally published Concrete International, April 1993 Back-up Statistics to -- Building Marine Structures with Structural Lightweight Aggregate Concrete Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute ESCSI Information Sheet

To view the table of contents and first two pages of the following ACI documents, click on the title: Guide for the Use of Silica Fume in Concrete - ACI 234R-96 State-of-the-Art Report on High-Strength Concrete - ACI 363R-92 Guide for the Design of Durable Parking Structures - ACI 362.1R-97 To order complete ACI Committee documents, click here

ASTM's C1240-97b Standard Specification for Silica Fume for Use as a Mineral Admixture in Hydraulic-Cement Concrete, Mortar, and Grout Order this document online from ASTM's site Standard Reference Material (SRM)® 2696 Silica Fume The Silica Fume SRM Fume is for checking the accuracy of existing laboratory practices and to provide a tool for instrument calibration is available from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Click here for more info...