Thermo-mechanical modeling of the early age behavior of concrete in Nuclear Containment Buildings

Author(s): El-Mahdi BOUHJITI, Matthieu BRIFFAUT, Julien BAROTH, Frédéric DUFOUR and Benoît MASSON
Paper category: Proceedings
Book title: Proceedings of the 2nd International RILEM/COST Conference on Early Age Cracking and Serviceability in Cement-based Materials and Structures Volume 2
Editor(s): Stéphanie Staquet and Dimitrios Aggelis
ISBN:978-2-35158-200-8
e-ISBN:978-2-35158-198-8
Publisher: RILEM Publications SARL
Publication year: 2017
Pages: 647-652
Total Pages: 6
Language : English

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose a weakly coupled Thermo-Mechanical approach in order to assess the risk of early age cracking for large concrete structures accounting for statistical and energetic size effects. The strategy is applied to the first lift of the VeRCoRs containment wall mock-up (scale 1:3) and the obtained results are compared to in situ measurements in order to assess the model’s accuracy.

Online publication : 2017
Publication type : full_text
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