Typical plastic shrinkage cracking behaviour of concrete

Magazine of Concrete Research

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 486-493

  Combrinck, Riaan ^a   Boshoff, William Peter ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK WIDTH; EXPOSED SURFACES; FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE; FRESH CONCRETE; INITIAL SETTING TIME; PLASTIC SHRINKAGE CRACKINGS; PLASTIC SHRINKAGE CRACKS; SETTING TIME;

CONCRETES; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SHRINKAGE; SYNTHETIC FIBERS;

CRACKS;

EID: 84880734830     PISSN: 00249831     EISSN: 1751763X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/macr.12.00139     Document Type: Article

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