Reducing thermal and autogenous shrinkage contributions to early-age cracking

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 414-420

  Bentz, Dale P ^a,b   Peltz, Max A ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ACI Committees 231 ^*

^c NIST

Author keywords

Cracking; Early ages; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; HYDRATION; ICE; MIXTURES; PORTLAND CEMENT; SHRINKAGE; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADIABATIC TEMPERATURE RISE; AUTOGENOUS DEFORMATIONS; AUTOGENOUS SHRINKAGES; CEMENT CONTENTS; CEMENT HYDRATION; CONCRETE MIXTURES; COST SAVINGS; CRACKING; EARLY AGES; EARLY-AGE CRACKING; INTER-PARTICLE SPACING; PER UNIT VOLUME; PORTLAND; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSTRUCTURES; WATER-CEMENT RATIO;

CEMENT MANUFACTURE;

EID: 48849105001     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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