University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Prediction of creep in structural concrete from short time tests pr1

Vaishnav, Ramesh N.; Baker, Lester S.; Kesler, Clyde E.

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Title
Prediction of creep in structural concrete from short time tests pr1
Author(s)
  • Vaishnav, Ramesh N.
  • Baker, Lester S.
  • Kesler, Clyde E.
Contributor(s)
  • Illinois. The Division of Highways
  • U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Public Roads
Issue Date
1960-09
Keyword(s)
  • Creep In Structural Concrete & Short Time Tests
  • Concrete, Structural & Creep & Short Time Tests
  • Time Tests, Short & Creep In Structural Concrete
Abstract
The project is designed to study the feasibility of using a short-time sonic test as a means of developing a procedure to predict the creep that will occur in concrete normally used in construction of highways and highway structures. As the magnitude of creep depends on a number of factors and as normal creep tests take a long time before the necessary information is obtained, development of a short-time teat to predict the magnitude of creep would be very helpful for design purposes. Concrete behaves as a viscoelastic material when subjected to static or dynamic loading. Damping capacity and creep of concrete are two aspects of the same phenomenon, the viscoelastic behavior of concrete. This leads one to seek a possible correlation between the two. The former being relatively easy to determine in a short time, the results of the investigation promise a great practical utility.
Publisher
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
  • TAM R 589
  • 1981-8539
ISSN
0073-5264
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/112314
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
Illinois Highway Division 60/09; Commerce Department Bureau of Public Roads 60/09 PROJ IHR 72 60/09
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 1960 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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