Abstract Six large Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) slabs were fabricated and tested to investigate the restrained shrinkage and cracking behaviors. The use of expanded polystyrene and Teflon sheets with two different slab thicknesses was considered to improve the shrinkage crack resistance. Free shrinkage was simultaneously measured to evaluate the degree of restraint according to the above test parameters. The test results showed that free shrinkage strains of –689 με to –723 με were obtained after 9 days, and prismatic specimens with a higher exposed surface area-to-volume ratio (S/V) had slightly higher free shrinkage strains than those with a lower S/V. Increasing the concrete slab thickness and using expanded polystyrene and Teflon sheets were effective at reducing the degree of restraint and improving the shrinkage crack resistance of the UHPFRC slabs. Among the various specimens, the slabs with the expanded polystyrene exhibited the lowest degree of restraint by 0.45 after 9 days.
Geometrical and boundary condition effects on restrained shrinkage behavior of UHPFRC slabs
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering ; 22 , 1 ; 185-195
2017-04-14
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Geometrical and boundary condition effects on restrained shrinkage behavior of UHPFRC slabs
Online Contents | 2018
|Plastic Shrinkage Cracking of Restrained Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
Online Contents | 1993
|Restrained Shrinkage Mechanism of Ultra High Performance Concrete
Online Contents | 2019
|Restrained Shrinkage Mechanism of Ultra High Performance Concrete
Springer Verlag | 2019
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2009
|