Modeling concrete shrinkage under variable ambient conditions

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-39

  Torrenti, Jean Michel ^a   Granger, Laurent ^a   Diruy, Maurice ^a   Genin, Pierrick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Beams; Concrete; Drying; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DRYING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SHRINKAGE; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WETTING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS;

DRYING SHRINKAGE; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIFFUSIVITY; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION EQUATION; VARIABLE AMBIENT CONDITIONS; WEIGHT LOSS;

CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0032590357     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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