Use of flax fibres to reduce plastic shrinkage cracking in concrete

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 929-937

  Boghossian, Emma ^a   Wegner, Leon D ^b  

^a AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concrete; Cracking; Fibre reinforcement; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CONCRETES; CRACKS; FLAX; GLASS FIBERS; LINEN; MORTAR; PLASTER; PLASTICS; POLYPROPYLENES; REINFORCEMENT; SHRINKAGE; YARN;

CRACKING; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FIBRE LENGTHS; FIBRE REINFORCEMENT; FLAX FIBRES; GLASS FIBRES; MAXIMUM CRACK WIDTHS; MORTAR SPECIMENS; PLASTIC SHRINKAGE CRACKINGS; PLASTIC SHRINKAGES; RESTRAINED PLASTIC SHRINKAGES;

FIBERS;

EID: 55649113719     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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