text: I'm sure I will, yes. Your best bet is to keep an eye on the Book Expo website, or to e-mail the organisers and find out when I'm scheduled to be where. Seeing that DC Comics and Harper Collins are both bringing me in, I'm sure I'll have to do a signing for each of them.
  I'll be doing a 40 minute talk, which should be fun -- one thing I want to do is read WOLVES IN THE WALLS with Dave McKean's images as slides behind me...
  And I can unofficially announce here that CRAZY HAIR will be coming out from Harper Childrens, and that Dave McKean will be painting it. With luck, in 2004....
  Effects of extra water and adding modes of super-absorbent polymer on shrinkage and pore structure of mortar
  To investigate the effects of extra water and adding modes of super-absorbent polymer(SAP)on mortar shrinkage and pore structure, mortar performance tests were carried out under the conditions of fixed total water-to-binder ratio and fixed consistency. Based on water absorption test and mortar consistency test, the difference of the absorption performance between the dry powder SAP and the pre-saturated SAP in cement-based materials was discussed. The effects of extra water and SAP adding modes on the autogenous shrinkage, dry shrinkage and pore structure parameters of the mortar were evaluated by volume stability test, mercury intrusion test and scanning electron microscopy. The results show that SAP added in the form of dry powder absorbs water more 30% to 50% in the mortar matrix than preswelling SAP. SAP can effectively reduce the self-shrinkage of the mortar, and the inhibition on self-shrinkage is more obvious when SAP is directly added in the form of dry powder. The extra water can slightly reduce the early drying shrinkage, but it tends to cause the dry shrinkage of the mortar to become larger. SAP can refine the pore structure of the mortar, reduce the number of large pores between 50 to 1 000 nm, and increase the number of small pores smaller than 50 nm. The refinement effect of the dry powder SAP is more significant under the same dosage conditions.
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