Early-Age Temperature and Strain in Basement Concrete Walls: Field Monitoring and Numerical Modeling
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 26, Issue 6
Abstract
Early-age cracking of base restrained concrete walls is a common problem. To provide the owner with an early warning of in-place quality problems resulting primarily as a result of thermal and shrinkage effects, it is helpful to apply monitoring and analytical techniques to examine the early-age behavior of basement concrete walls. In this paper, the temperature and strain monitoring on a basement concrete wall is conducted. Major factors that contribute to the early-age behavior of concrete walls constructed in cold weather are evaluated using analytical models along with measured field data and finite-element modeling. The results show that the monitoring process eliminated much of the guesswork frequently associated with basement concrete walls constructed in cold weather. Temperature varies laterally within the wall. The strain remains unchanged after six days with formwork removal. And the numerical predictions for strains and temperature are in agreement with the measured results, during both the cooling and the heating phases. This analytical method can be applied to newly constructed basement walls because they are often built several weeks after the slab foundation.
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Acknowledgments
Support for this study is provided by grants from the Six Talent Peak Project of Jiangsu Province (07-F-012) and Research Program of Building Industry of Jiangsu Province (JG2007-05), which are appreciated.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 26 • Issue 6 • December 2012
Pages: 754 - 765
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Received: Feb 17, 2011
Accepted: Oct 7, 2011
Published online: Oct 10, 2011
Published in print: Dec 1, 2012
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