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Plastic Shrinkage Cracking in Concrete – Influence of Test Methods



Author(s): Faez Sayahi, Mats Emborg, Hans Hedlund
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: 773-778
Total Pages: 6
Language : English


Abstract: Plastic shrinkage cracking can become problematic especially in concrete elements with high surface to volume ratio such as slabs and pavements. In this paper two test methods commonly used when studying the phenomenon have been evaluated; ring test method (NORDTEST-method NT Build 433) developed in NTNU/SINTEF by Johansen and Dahl in order to study the effect of different materials and constituents on the cracking tendency at macro-level, and ASTM C 1579, mainly designed in order to map the influence of fibres. During this research, influence of coarse aggregate content on plastic shrinkage cracking of self-compacting concrete (SCC) was studied. Preliminary results show same tendencies with the two methods i.e. a lower plastic shrinkage tendency with higher amount of coarse aggregates.


Online publication : 2017
Publication type : full_text
Public price (Euros) : 0.00


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