Evaluation of Shrinkage Resulted Cracking of High Strength Calcium Sulfoaluminate Cement Concrete with Impact of Internal Curing

Abstract:

In this paper, restrained ring test and shrinkage test are carried on three kinds of concrete—high-strength portland cement concrete, high-strength calcium sulfoaluminate cement concrete and high-strength calcium sulfoaluminate cement concrete with internal curing in order to evaluate the shrinkage induced cracking performance of the concretes. The experimental results show that calcium sulfoaluminate cement concrete exhibits lower shrinkage caused by surface drying comparing to portland cement concrete. Internal curing can eliminate most of the autogenous shrinkage of concrete. In the ring test, the latter two concrete did not crack during the whole test history—42 days, while high-strength portland cement concrete cracked at the 13th day after casting. High strength calcium sulfoaluminate cement concrete exhibits better anti-cracking ability than the high strength portland cement concrete with the same strength grade.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 629-630)
• Pages: 144-149
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.629-630.144
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Yi Ming Luosun*, Jun Zhang, Yuan Gao
• Keywords: Calcium Sulfoaluminate Cement, Cracking, High-Strength Concrete (HSC), Internal Curing, Ring Test, Shrinkage

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