ABSTRACT
Set within a national context, identification may be relatively straightforward, depending completely on the actual cement types available. Currently in the U.K., only a limited number of types are either manufactured or imported and these are the compositionally-simple ’non-composite’ types (see table 8). Accordingly, the successful identification of a particular cement type currently used in a concrete in the U.K. will be less intractable than in countries where a range of composite types could have been used. However, if in future a greater range of cements were to be introduced to the U.K., the analytical problems of post-hoc identification could be compounded to the point where an accurate assessment of type and content became impossible.
