Reducing the cracking potential of ultra-high performance concrete by using Super Absorbent Polymers (SAP)

Advances in Cement-Based Materials - Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-19

  Dudziak, L ^a   Mechtcherine, V ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOGENOUS DEFORMATIONS; AUTOGENOUS SHRINKAGE; CRACKING POTENTIAL; EARLY AGE; HARDENED STATE; INTERNAL CURING; PORE SYSTEM; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR; SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER; ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETES (UHPC);

ABSORPTION; DEFORMATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SHRINKAGE;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84859913822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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