Simulation of capillary shrinkage cracking in cement-like materials

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 461-469

  Slowik, V ^a   Hubner T ^a   Schmidt, M ^a   Villmann, B ^a  

^a LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Discrete modeling; Early age concrete; Early age cracking; Interparticle forces; Particle model; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DISCRETE MODELING; EARLY AGE CONCRETE; EARLY AGE CRACKING; INTERPARTICLE FORCES; PARTICLE MODEL;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CEMENTS; CONCRETES; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; LIQUIDS; SHRINKAGE; SURFACES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

WATER CONTENT;

EID: 67449141688     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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