- Author
- Bentz, D. P.
- Title
- Engineering Concrete Performance.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Concrete International, Vol. 29, No. 11, 33-37, November 2007
- Keywords
- concretes | shrinkage | plastics | cracking (fracturing) | costs | curing agents | degradation
- Identifiers
- comparing chemical and physical options; rheological performance; segregation in self-consolidating concrete; plastic shrinkage cracking; autogeneous shrinkage and early-age cracking; high early strength; freely available computational tools for predicting concrete performance; resistance to freezing and thawing; transport/reaction-based degradation processes
- Abstract
- As with all materials, the performance of concrete is strongly influenced by its physical structure. From its earliest origins, however, the performance of cement-based materials has also been controlled by the judicious addition of supplemental chemicals. From the examples discussed in this article, it's clear that the engineering of concrete performance has historically used both physical and chemical approaches. Future engineering efforts will almost certainly maintain this tradition.