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Controlling Early-age Transverse Cracking in High Performance Concrete Bridge Decks

This research was undertaken to study the effects of high performance concrete (HPC) mix design modifications on the propensity of early-age cracking. Seven mixtures were tested: one 35 MPa conventional concrete (CC) mixture made with ordinary Portland cement with blended slag; one typical 50 MPa HPC mixture containing slag and silica fume; and five modified HPC mixtures using extra set-retarder, increased slag replacement, shrinkage-reducing admixture (SRA), pre-saturated lightweight aggregate (LWA), and decreased cement paste content to improve thermal and/or shrinkage properties. The mixtures were tested for durability, mechanical, thermal, and shrinkage properties. All modified HPC mixtures showed reduced shrinkage relative to the HPC control mixture, and the most shrinkage mitigation was observed in the mixture containing LWA. While SRA reduced restrained shrinkage in HPC to the magnitude of CC, it provided very low rapid chloride penetrability, and using LWA in HPC resulted in significant restrained shrinkage reduction compared to CC.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/43089
Date04 December 2013
CreatorsLiu, Eric Ying Xian
ContributorsHooton, Robert Douglas
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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