Abstract
In order to investigate the combined effect of expansive and shrinkage-reducing admixtures on shrinkage and mechanical properties of ultra high performance fiber-reinforced concrete, a series of experiments including three types of shrinkage tests, compressive and flexural tests, and penetration-resistance test were performed. Test results showed that about 51-53% of free shrinkage and 35-49% of restrained steel strains were reduced by adding 1% shrinkage-reducing admixture along with 7.5% expansive admixture with slight change of strength. Elastic stress, residual interface pressure and degree of restraint from ring specimens were also significantly reduced by using expansive and shrinkage-reducing admixtures. Although the elastic stress of the ring specimen without expansive and shrinkage-reducing admixtures was higher than the tensile strength, no shrinkage crack was observed for all test specimens due to the relaxation effect.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1981-1991 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Composite Materials |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 16 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 Jul |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (no. 2012R1A2A1A05026406) and carried out as a partial research of the “Development of Ultra High Performance Concrete for Hybrid Cable Stayed Bridges” in the Korea Institute of Construction Technology.
Keywords
- Ultra high performance fiber-reinforced concrete
- degree of restraint
- elastic stress
- expansive admixture
- shrinkage
- shrinkage-reducing admixture
- theoretical shrinkage cracking
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ceramics and Composites
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Materials Chemistry