Influence of shrinkage-reducing admixtures on development of plastic shrinkage cracks

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-194

  Lura, Pietro ^a   Pease, Brad ^b   Mazzotta, Guy B ^c   Rajabipour, Farshad ^d,e   Weiss, Jason ^d,e,f,g  

^a EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ACI Purdue Student Chapter ^*

^f ACI Committee 123

^g 365 Service Life Prediction

Author keywords

Cracking; Durability; Plastic shrinkage; Settlement; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PLASTIC SHRINKAGE; SETTLEMENTS; SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURE (SRA);

CONCRETES; CRACK INITIATION; DURABILITY; MORTAR; TENSILE STRESS;

SHRINKAGE;

EID: 34247464996     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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