Impact of admixtures on the plastic shrinkage cracking of self-compacting concrete

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Leemann, Andreas ^a   Nygaard, Peter ^a   Lura, Pietro ^a,b  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Admixtures; Cracking; Plastic shrinkage; Self compacting concrete

Indexed keywords

ADMIXTURES; CLIMATE CHAMBERS; CONCRETE COMPONENTS; CRACK PREVENTION; CRACKING BEHAVIOR; PLASTIC SHRINKAGE; PLASTIC SHRINKAGE CRACKINGS; SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURES;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CRACK INITIATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE; SHRINKAGE;

CRACKS;

EID: 84890050106     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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