A numerical and experimental study of aggregate-induced shrinkage cracking in cementitious composites

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 272-281

  Idiart, Andrés ^a,b   Bisschop, Jan ^c   Caballero, Antonio ^d   Lura, Pietro ^c,e  

^a AMPHOS 21 Consulting   (Spain)

^b OXAND SA   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BBR VT International ^*  (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Crack detection (B); Drying (A); Finite element analysis (C); Fracture mechanics; Shrinkage (C)

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTION; AGGREGATE SIZE; CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES; CREEP RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; MATRIX PHASE; MATRIX SHRINKAGE; MECHANICAL RESTRAINTS; MODEL PREDICTION; MOISTURE GRADIENT; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SHRINKAGE CRACKING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK DETECTION; CRACKS; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MICROCRACKING; SHRINKAGE;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84856330623     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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