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Early age tensile creep of high strength concrete loaded during the first day after casting was studied. The effect of silica fume was evaluated, using two types of loading scheme: (i) creep which occurs in a restrained autogenous shrinkage test and (ii) creep measured in a conventional test under constant load. The two methods showed that the addition of silica fume increased the early age tensile creep of high strength concrete, when compared to concrete without silica fume but with similar water/binder ratio. This enhanced creep is of practical significance as it provides a mechanism to relieve some of the restraining stress that develops due to autogenous shrinkage.
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Dans cet article, on a étudié le fluage en traction d'un béton de haute résistance, pendant le premier jour suivant sa fabrication. On a caractérisé l'effet de la fumée de silice, à partir de deux modes de chargement: (1) fluage dans le cas d'un essai en retrait intrinsèque empêché et (2) fluage mesuré dans un essai conventionnel sous charge constante.
Les deux méthodes indiquent que l'addition de fumée de silice augmente le fluage initial d'un béton de haute résistance, par rapport à celui d'un béton de même rapport eau/liant sans fumée de silice. Cette augmentation du fluage est d'une signification pratique, en fournissant un mécanisme qui compense en partie les contraintes générées par le retrait intrinsèque.
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Editorial Note Dr. K. Kovler and Prof. A. Bentur are RILEM Senior Members. Technion is a RILEM Titular Member. Prof. Amon Bentur is a Fellow of RILEM and a member of the RILEM Coordinating Committee. He is the Chaiman of TC 159-ETC: ‘Engineering of the interfacial transition zone in cementitious composites’ (co-chaired with Prof. Alxander) and of TC EAS: ‘Early age shrinkage induced stresses and cracking in cementitious systems’. Dr. K. Kovler is a Member of the TC EAS and of TC 162-TDF: ‘Test and design methods for steel fiber reinforced concrete’.
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Kolver, K., Igarashi, S. & Bentur, A. Tensile creep behavior of high strength concretes at early ages. Mat. Struct. 32, 383–387 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479631
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479631