A multiscale creep model as basis for simulation of early-age concrete behavior

Computers and Concrete

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 295-328

  Pichler, Ch ^a   Lackner, R ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium silicate hydrates; Concrete; Continuum micromechanics; Early age concrete; Laplace Carson transformation; Logarithmic creep; Multiscale modeling

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM SILICATE; CEMENTS; CONCRETES; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HYDRATES; HYDRATION; MICROMECHANICS; PORTLAND CEMENT; SILICATES; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY;

CALCIUM SILICATE HYDRATE; CONTINUUM MICROMECHANICS; EARLY AGE CONCRETE; LAPLACE-CARSON TRANSFORMATION; MULTI-SCALE MODELING;

CREEP;

EID: 52249094671     PISSN: 15988198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/cac.2008.5.4.295     Document Type: Article

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