- Modelling creep of high strength concrete
- Modelling creep of high strength concrete
- ㆍ 저자명
- Dias-da-Costa. D.,Julio. E.N.B.S.
- ㆍ 간행물명
- Computers & concrete
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2010년|7권 6호|pp.533-547 (15 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 테크노프레스
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물|ENG| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
Recent developments in concrete mixing made possible the production of concretes with high compressive strength showing, simultaneously, high workability. These concretes also present high strengths at young ages, allowing the application of loads sooner. It is of fundamental importance to verify if creep models developed for current concrete still apply to these new concretes. First, a FEM-based software was adopted to test available creep models, most used for normal strength concrete, considering examples with known analytical results. Several limitations were registered, resulting in an incorrect simulation of three-dimensional creep. Afterwards, it was implemented a Kelvin-chain algorithm allowing the use of a chosen number of elements, which adequately simulated the adopted examples. From the comparison between numerical and experimental results, it was concluded that the adopted algorithm can be used to model creep of high strength concrete, if the material properties are previously experimentally assessed.