Experimental characterisation of the drying effect on uniaxial mechanical behaviour of mortar

Title: Experimental characterisation of the drying effect on uniaxial mechanical behaviour of mortar
Author(s): I. Yurtdas, N. Burlion, F. Skoczylas
Paper category : journal
Serial title: Materials and Structures
Abreviated Serial title: Mater. Struct.
ISSN: 1359-5997
Publisher: RILEM Publications SARL
Volume: 37
Issue: 267
Issue date: 2004-04-01
Publication year: 2004
Pages: 170 - 176
Total Pages: 7
Nb references: 32
Language: English

Abstract: The main objective of this present study was to evaluate, for a standard mortar, the drying effect on its mechanical behaviour.
Numerous uniaxial compression tests were thus performed with loading-unloading cycles.
They were carried out on different samples previously preserved under various conditions of conservation: preserved from desiccation, air drying and rapid drying at 60°C.
The obtained results showed significant influences of these conditions on the material behaviour (increase in strength, decrease in Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio) and the necessity of taking into account the coupling effects between mechanical poromechanical behaviours and drying.

Online publication: 2004-02-26
Classification: Scientific Reports
Publication type : full_text
Public price (Euros): 0.00
doi: 10.1617/13915