The origin of early age expansions induced in cementitious materials containing shrinkage reducing admixtures

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 218-229

  Sant, Gaurav ^a   Lothenbach, Barbara ^b   Juilland, Patrick ^c   Saout, Gwenn Le ^b   Weiss, Jason ^d   Scrivener, Karen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expansion C ; Pore solution B ; Shrinkage reducing admixture; Shrinkage C ; X ray diffraction B

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; CONCRETE MIXTURES; DEFORMATION; EXPANSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SETTING; SHRINKAGE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AUTOGENOUS DEFORMATIONS; CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; DEFORMATION CALCULATION; EARLY AGE SHRINKAGES; MEASUREMENTS OF; OVERSATURATION; PORE SOLUTION; SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURES;

SOLUTION MINING;

EID: 79957535975     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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