A Relationship between Drying Shrinkage and Water Potential

콘크리트의 건조수축과 수리에너지의 상관관계

Water potential which controls miosture movement in concrete is a kind of stress which causes concrete shrinks or expands. Therefore, there is a straightforward relationship between the water potential and the shrinkage strain. Explicit equations which show the relationships between the two parameters were derived through rational process. Two micro mechanisms among three shrinkage mechanisms were considered in the theory. Thermocouple psychrometer were embedded in a concrete slab to measure the water potential and also to find a correlation with the shrinkage. The test results prove the validity of the theory, and show the way to utilize the delived equations.