Use of Alternative Materials to Reduce Shrinkage Cracking in Bridge Decks

Early age transverse cracking, a crack pattern drying shrinkage generally causes, affects more than 100,000 U.S. bridge decks, according to several state departments of transportation in a 1996 survey. Resistance restrained drying shrinkage cracking improvement is treated as achievable through concrete material properties. The authors discuss various test methods as they relate to material shrinkage cracking resistance determination, and present materials-based methods for drying shrinkage control. Extensible concrete, shrinkage-reducing admixtures, shrinkage-compensating concrete, and fibers are among the materials discussed. That there was adequate restrained drying-shrinkage cracking reduction through several of the alternative mixtures was confirmed in large-scale bridge deck specimens and determined in small laboratory specimens.

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• Authors:
  • Brown, Michael D
  • Smith, Cuyler A
  • Sellers, J Greg
  • Folliard, Kevin J
  • Breen, John E
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 629-637
• Serial:
  • ACI Materials Journal
  • Volume: 104
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  • ISSN: 0889-325X
  • Serial URL: https://www.concrete.org/publications/acimaterialsjournal.aspx

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge decks; Concrete; Design; Expansive concrete; Fibers; Materials; Properties of materials; Transverse cracking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Early age cracking; Extensible concrete; Reduction (Decrease); Shrinkage cracking
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Materials; I32: Concrete;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082610
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: pp 104-M69
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2007 11:30AM