A comprehensive experimental review of strain rate, size effect, creep and confinement in concrete: Part III

B Ahmed, T Park, GZ Voyiadjis - International Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A comprehensive review of destructive testing techniques to understand concrete behavior
is presented in this work. The main objective of this article is to summarize the literature from …

Flexural behavior of long-term loaded RC beams strengthened by ultra-high performance concrete

Z Zhu, H Abdelbaset, X Li, Q Tang - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the flexural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams
strengthened with ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) after being loaded with long …

Influence of sustained loading on fracture properties of concrete

W Dong, X Zhang, BS Zhang, Q Wu - Engineering fracture mechanics, 2018 - Elsevier
To investigate the effects of sustained loading on the fracture properties of concrete, basic
creep and three-point bending (TPB) tests were conducted on the pre-notched beams. The …

Three‐dimensional nonlinear creep and shrinkage effects of a long‐span prestressed concrete box girder bridge

S Li, Y Yang, Q Pu, D Yang, B Sun, X Li - Structural Concrete, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To analyze the impacts of creep and shrinkage effects on the behaviors of long‐span
prestressed concrete box girder bridges, a new nonlinear analysis model of creep and …

Comparison of compressive, tensile, and flexural creep of early-age concretes under sealed and drying conditions

Y Wei, Z Wu, J Huang, S Liang - Journal of Materials in Civil …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
The compressive creep of concrete is normally adopted to predict the stress or the time-
dependent deformation of concrete members, without considering the difference of creep …

Tensile and compressive creep of UHSM with CaO-based expansive agent

G Yang, D Xu, Z Hu, H Wang, M Jin, J Liu, F Han… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
To mitigating shrinkage cracking of ultra-high strength mortar (UHSM), the CaO-based
expansive agent (CaO-EA) has been considered as an important additive. In this paper, the …

Comprehensive study of concrete creep, shrinkage, and water content evolution under sealed and drying conditions

Y Theiner, M Drexel, M Neuner, G Hofstetter - Strain, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive study of the time‐dependent behaviour of concrete, enhanced by
measuring the evolution of the respective mass water content, is presented. Compressive …

Effect mechanism of slag activity on the basic tensile creep of alkali-activated slag mortar

Z Zhang, J Zhang, X Yang, Y Ning, T Ji - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the effect mechanism of slag activity on the basic tensile creep
of alkali-activated slag mortar (AM) using a combined activator of quicklime and sodium …

Experimental and finite element analysis of creep behaviour of steel fibre reinforced high strength concrete beams

F Bouziadi, B Boulekbache, A Haddi, C Djelal - Construction and Building …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study is focused on experimental investigations and numerical analyses of
compressive and tensile total creep at long-term of high-strength concrete (HSC) beams …

Effects of shrinkage variation within beam depth and bending creep on flexural behavior of RC members

SG Kim, YH Lee - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
The effects of shrinkage variation within the beam depth and bending creep on the time-
dependent flexural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams were examined via two sets …