First year monitoring of the first air-entrained high-performance bridge in North America

ACI Structural Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 379-386

  Lachemi, Mohamed ^a   Bois, Axel Pierre ^a   Miao, Buquan ^a   Lessard, Michel ^a   Aïtcin, Pierre Claude ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Air entrained concrete; Bridges; High performance concretes; Hygrometric effect; Instrumentation; Monitoring; Shrinkage; Strain; Temperature; Thermal gradient

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE SLABS; CONCRETES; DILATOMETERS; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; SHRINKAGE; STRAIN; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOCOUPLES;

AIR ENTRAINED CONCRETE; AIR ENTRAINED HIGH PERFORMANCE BRIDGE; HYGROMETRIC EFFECT; PHYSICAL CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; THERMOHYGROMETRIC CYCLES; VIBRATING WIRE EXTENSOMETERS;

CONCRETE BRIDGES;

EID: 0030193297     PISSN: 08893241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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