Modeling the thermal stresses at early ages in a concrete monolith

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 577-587

  Ayotte, Eric ^a   Massicotte, Bruno ^a   Houde, Jules ^a   Gocevski, Vladimir ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Concrete dams; Early age concrete; Field monitoring; Finite element analysis; Freeze and thaw cycles; Mass concrete; Thermal stresses

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONCRETE DAMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONITORING; STRAIN GAGES; THERMAL STRESS;

CONCRETE MONOLITH; FREEZE AND THAW CYCLES; MASS CONCRETE;

CONCRETES;

EID: 0031268440     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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