Experimental investigation on bond behaviours of deformed steel bars embedded in early age concrete under biaxial lateral pressures at low curing temperatures

2021 ◽  
Vol 303 ◽  
pp. 124419
Author(s):  
Sina Kazemi Esfeh ◽  
Hua Rong ◽  
Wei Dong ◽  
Binsheng Zhang
2015 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaobin Song ◽  
Yajie Wu ◽  
Xianglin Gu ◽  
Chao Chen

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 085025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingzhao Kong ◽  
Shuang Hou ◽  
Qing Ji ◽  
Y L Mo ◽  
Gangbing Song

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Hongduo Zhao

The objective of this paper is to investigate the characterization of moisture diffusion inside early-age concrete slabs subjected to curing. Time-dependent relative humidity (RH) distributions of three mixture proportions subjected to three different curing methods (i.e., air curing, water curing, and membrane-forming compounds curing) and sealed condition were measured for 28 days. A one-dimensional nonlinear moisture diffusion partial differential equation (PDE) based on Fick’s second law, which incorporates the effect of curing in the Dirichlet boundary condition using a concept of curing factor, is developed to simulate the diffusion process. Model parameters are calibrated by a genetic algorithm (GA). Experimental results show that the RH reducing rate inside concrete under air curing is greater than the rates under membrane-forming compound curing and water curing. It is shown that the effect of water-to-cement (w/c) ratio on self-desiccation is significant. Lower w/c ratio tends to result in larger RH reduction. RH reduction considering both effect of diffusion and self-desiccation in early-age concrete is not sensitive to w/c ratio, but to curing method. Comparison between model simulation and experimental results indicates that the improved model is able to reflect the effect of curing on moisture diffusion in early-age concrete slabs.


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