Performance of shrinkage-reducing admixtures at different humidities and at early ages

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 478-486

  Weiss, Jason ^a,b,c,d   Lura, Pietro ^e   Rajabipour, Farshad ^a,c,f   Sant, Gaurav ^a,g  

^a ACI ^*

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ACI Committee 123

^d 365 Service Life Prediction

^e SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Autogenous; Capillary; Drying; Mass; Shrinkage; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADMIXTURE; AUTOGENOUS; CAPILLARY; CEMENT PASTES; DRYING SHRINKAGES; EARLY AGES; MASS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SHRINKAGE CRACKING; SHRINKAGE-REDUCING ADMIXTURES; STRESS; STRESS DEVELOPMENT; VOLUME CHANGES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONCRETE ADDITIVES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETES; CURING; DEWATERING; DRYING; FREE VOLUME; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICONES; STANDARDS; TESTING;

SHRINKAGE;

EID: 52649164617     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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