Drying shrinkage of concrete reinforced with fibers and welded-wire fabric

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 233-241

  Voigt, Thomas ^a   Bui, Van K ^b   Shah, Surendra P ^c,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Walters and Wolf Precast   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d Ctr for Adv Cement Based Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

Cracking; Drying shrinkage; Fiber reinforced concrete; Weldedwire fabric

Indexed keywords

FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETES; RING TESTS; SHRINKAGE CRACKING; STEEL FIBERS; WELDED-WIRE FABRICS;

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACKS; DRYING; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FIBERS; RHEOLOGY; SHRINKAGE; TENSILE STRESS;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 3042730964     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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