Study of the Combined Effect of Steel Reinforcement and Expansion Agent on the Crack Resistance of Ready-Mixed Concrete

Abstract:

The objective of this work is to find the law of combined effect of steel reinforcement and expansion agent (EA) on the crack resistance of ready-mixed concrete by doing flat-plate method experimental study on the crack resistance of ready-mixed concrete with EA, also with EA and steel reinforcement, with a deep analysis of the mechanism of reinforcement and EA on ready-mixed concrete. The paper comes to the role of ready-mixed concrete cracking performance which is influenced by reinforcement steel and EA.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 204-208)
• Pages: 1159-1163
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.204-208.1159
• Online since: October 2012
• Authors: Gang Chen*, Shuai Yuan, Yu Bo Peng, Wei Jun Yang
• Keywords: Crack Area Method, Crack Resistance of Ready-Mixed Concrete, Flat-Plate Method Experimental, Mechanism of Action of EA

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