• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.17 no.4 s.88
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• pp.581-586
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• 2005

High-performance concrete (HPC), which is particularly sensitive to self-desiccation, is required to be durable even in severe environmental conditions, i.e. costal area, cold district, etc. However, in recent years, some attention was particularly given to cracking sensitivity of high performance concrete at early age. It has been argued and demonstrated experimentally that such concrete undergoes autogenous shrinkage due to self-desiccation at early age under restrained condition, nd, as a result, internal tensile stress may develop, leading to micro cracking and macro cracking. This shrinkage-introduced crack produces a major serviceability problem for concrete structures. One possible method to reduce cracking due to autogenous shrinkage is the addition of expansive additive. Tests conducted by many researches have shown the beneficial effects of addition of expansive additive for reducing the risk of autogenous shrinkage-introduced cracking. However, the research on hydration model of expansion additive has been hardly researched up to now. This paper presents a study of the hydration model of Ettringite-Gypsum type expansive additive. As a result of comparing forecast values with experiment value, proposed model is shown to expressible of hydration of expansive additive.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.275-276
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• 2010

In this study, using experimental results on the autogenous expansion of concrete containing MgO, autogenous expansion model which considers water-binder ratio, amount of MgO and curing temperature was suggested. The results predicted by autogenous expansion model agreed well with experiment results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.293-294
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• 2010

In this study, it was analyzed that autogenous expansion of MgO concrete was affected by W/B and curing temperature. Autogenous expansion test was performed for MgO concrete, which is mixed MgO of 0%, 5% of cement weight. With autogenous expansion based on long-term time variation was measured, it was observed an influence with W/B and curing temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.97-102
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• 2010

The objective of this paper is to explore the possibility of reuse of waste vegetable oil (WO) as an autogenous shrinkage reducer for high strength concrete and to compare the amount of autogenous shrinkage of the mortar using existing shrinkage reducing agent(SR) and expansive additives(EA). According to test results, as the dosages of WO increased, flow value exhibited to decrease, while the use of SR increased flow value. For the effect of WO on strength, although the use of SR and WO resulted in a slight decrease in compressive strength at early age, at 91 days they had similar strength level of the plain mixture. For autogenous shrinkage, as expected, the addition of WO, SR and EA resulted in a decrease of autogeneous shrinkage considerably especially, WO had superiority in autogenous shrinkage reducing effect compared with the case of SR and EA.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 초고강도 콘크리트의 자기수축 제어대책으로서 팽창재를 이용하는 경우의 적절한 첨가량 및 유효성에 대하여 확인하였고, 재팽창 현상에 대해서 검토하였다. 그 결과 물시벤트비가 극히 낮은 초고강도 콘크리트의 특성상 과첨가의 경우는 미반응의 팽창재가 잔존하고 재팽창 할 가능성이 있는 것으로 나타났으며 초고강도 콘크리트용의 팽창재로서는 가능한 미수화 팽창재가 잔존하지 않는 팽창재 즉 팽창성능을 충분히 가지면서 수화반응이 빠른 조강성의 비표면적이 큰 팽창재가 바람직한 것을 제안하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.379-380
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• 2009

In this study, autogenous expansion of concrete containing MgO was measured and compared with that of concrete with no MgO. It is found from the test results that the amount of MgO and curing temperature strongly influence the autogenous expansion of dam concrete with compressive strength of 12 MPa.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.441-448
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• 2011

In this study, experimental tests of chemical and autogenous shrinkage were performed to evaluate the early age shrinkage behaviors of ultra high performance cementitious composites (UHPCC) with various replacement ratios of silica fume (SF), shrinkage reducing agent (SRA), expansive admixture (EA), and superplasticizer (SP). Starting time of self-desiccation, was analyzed by comparing the setting times and the deviated point of chemical and autogenous shrinkage strains. The test results indicated that both SF and SRA augment the early age chemical shrinkage, whereas SP delays the hydration reaction between cement particles and water, and reduces chemical shrinkage. About 49% of autogenous shrinkage was depleted by synergetic effect of SRA and EA. The hardening of UHPCC was catalyzed by containing EA. Self-desiccation of UHPCC occurred prior to the initial setting due to the high volume fraction of fibers and low water-binder ratio (W/B).

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.617-625
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• 2009

This study is devoted to the problems of thermal and autogenous expansion stresses in order to avoid cracking using chemically prestressing method. The chemical prestress can be induced by autogenous expansion characteristics of MgO concrete made in specific burning temperature. The volume change induced cracking has great influence on the long-term durability and serviceability. To evaluate risk of cracking, the computer programs for analysis of thermal and autogenous expansion stresses were developed. In these 3-D finite element procedures, long-term autogenous expansive deformation is modeled and its resultant stress is calculated and then verified by comparison with manual calculation results. In this study, the stress development is related to thermal and autogenous expansive deformation. Using the developed program, residual stresses of MgO concrete were compared and analysed in the example From the numerical results it is found that long-term, and temperature dependent expansive concrete with light-burnt MgO is most effective in controlling the risk of cracking of mass concrete because it has high temperature for long period. The developed analysis program can be efficiently utilized as a useful tool to evaluate the thermal and autogenous expansion stresses in mass concrete structures with lightly burnt MgO.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.785-793
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• 2003

This study is intended to analyze the effectiveness of expansive additive, shrinkage reducing agent and combination of the two to reduce the autogenous and drying shrinkage of high performance concrete using mineral admixture such as fly ash, blast furnace slag powder and silica fume. According to results, when expansive additive and shrinkage reducing agent are mixed within an appropriate mixing ratio, fluidity and air content are not influenced, and the enhancement of compressive strength is favorable at the age of 91 and 180days. At the mixing ratio of expansive additive of 5% and 10%, the autogenous and drying shrinkage is reduced by 32∼68% and 25∼49% respectively in comparison with plain concrete. And they are reduced by 18∼34% and 16∼26% respectively at the mixing ratio of shrinkage reducing agent of 0.5% and 1.0%, compared with plain concrete. The mixture of EA-SR combined with expansive additive and shrinkage reducing agent is most effective for reduction of shrinkage. Therefore, it is considered that the using method in combination with expansive additive and shrinkage reducing agent is effective to reduce the shrinkage of high performance concrete using mineral admixture such as fly ash, blast slag powder and silica fume.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.295-301
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• 2011

Recently, the use of UHPC made of superplasticizers, silica fume, and steel fibers has been increasing worldwide. Although UHPC has a very high strength as well as an excellent durability performance due to its dense microstructures, earlyage cracks may occur due to the high heat of hydration and autogenous shrinkage caused by low W/B and high unit cement content. The early-age shrinkage cracking of UHPC can be controlled by using the shrinkage reducers and expansive admixtures having autogenous shrinkage compensation effect. In this paper, ultrasonic pulse velocity of UHPC containing shrinkage reducers and expansive agents was measured to predict its stiffness change. Also, the effect of shrinkage reducers and expansive agents on the autogenous shinkage of UHPC was investigated through the shrinkage test of UHPC specimens. Furthermore, the material coefficients of autogenous shrinkage prediction model were determined using the autogenous shrinkage values of UHPC with age. Consequently, the test results showed that, by adding shrinkage reducers and expansive agents, the stiffness of UHPC was rapidly developed at early-ages and the autogenous shrinkage was considerably reduced.