Toward the Development of a Performance-Related Specification for Concrete Shrinkage
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 24, Issue 1
Abstract
Although the opportunity to replace prescriptive codes and specifications with those based on performance has been widely discussed, currently only limited tools are capable of providing performance-based description of concrete behavior. This paper introduces a stochastic approach to relate the free shrinkage of concrete with anticipated cracking performance. This method proposes that shrinkage performance grades could be established to allow the designer to limit the probability of cracking based on free shrinkage as a first step. The probabilistic assessment of concrete cracking performance is further obtained from Monte Carlo simulations in which material properties (e.g., shrinkage, modulus, and strength) are treated as random variables with assigned predefined distributions. As a result of these simulations, user-friendly diagrams are obtained that can be further used by transportation agencies and contractors to predict field performance of concrete.
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Acknowledgments
The writers gratefully acknowledge support for this research that has come from the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) Project No. UNSPECIFIEDSPR-2941 and Villanova University through a research grant awarded to the first author.
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Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 24 • Issue 1 • January 2012
Pages: 64 - 71
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Nov 15, 2010
Accepted: Jul 7, 2011
Published online: Jul 9, 2011
Published in print: Jan 1, 2012
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