• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2006.05b
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• pp.441-444
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• 2006

The Yang Pyeong bridge is high the occurred possibility of temperature crack by means of hydration Heat when the foundation of is constructed. Therefore, a pipe-cooling method was applied for reducing the temperature crack. Using the measured temperature curve when construction was carried out, the measured value and different facts were analyzed. In this paper, cause and analysis with respect to a mentioned above is to discuss firstly, and thermal characteristics of concrete and construction method hereafter is also discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.187-192
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• 1998

Recent construction method in mass concrete structures would depend on the control of hydration heats and thermal stresses by using the low heat cement, optimized block size and a lift height, or both. This experimental study aims at the possibility of thermal cracks according to the different types of cementations material and at the investigation of these effects. Four different types of cements are applied to the mock-up test and are evaluated in terms of temperature rises and thermal stresses with the use of thermocouples, strain gauges and effective stress gauges. As a result of this study, it was found that stresses measured from effective stress gauges agree well with ones form strain gauges, and the trend of stress occurrence can be well evaluated from theoretical analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.205-210
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• 1998

The strength and dimension of recent constructed subway box structures are increased considerably. These increases are resulting in much initial cracks by hydration heat and thermal stress. According to previous studies, decrease of cement amount by using superplasticizer and L/H value is the best way to eliminate hydration heat and stress. The analyses using finite element model were performed. By the result of analysis, the use of superplasticizer and the decrease of the change of longitudinal placing length are proved to be more effective for elimination thermal cracks. By ACI Code, for longitudinal placing length 25 m, the amount of wall temperature reinforcement is always lack despite of concrete mix proportion. With analytical result and the inducing crack joint, the in-site test were performed and the analytical results proved to be effective. However, the inducing crack joint is not effective if it is a small size.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1992.04a
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• pp.107-113
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• 1992

The heat of hydration of cement the causes the internal temperature rise at early age, particulary in massive concrete structures such as a mat-slab of nuclear reactor building or a dam or a large footing. As the result of the temperature rise and restraint of foundation, the thermal stress enough to induce concrete cracks can occur. Therefore, the prediction of the thermal stress is very important in the design and construction stages in order to control the cracks developed in massive concrete structures. And, more creep and shrinkage take place at elevated temperatures in young concrete, Thus the effect of creep and shrinkage must be considered for checking the safety and servicebility(crack, durability and leakage).

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.717-720
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• 2006

The Yang Pyeong bridge is high the occurred possibility of temperature crack by means of hydration Heat when the foundation of is constructed. Therefore, a pipe-cooling method was applied for reducing the temperature crack. Using the measured temperature curve when construction was carried out, the measured value and different facts were analyzed. In this paper, cause and analysis with respect to a mentioned above is to discuss firstly, and thermal characteristics of concrete and construction method hereafter is also discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.135-138
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to design the self-compaction concrete mixture, having not only high strength but also compensation of shrinkage without thermal crack under 4 sides outer restraint of the member. In the experimental mix, replacement ratio of limestone Powder, CSA expansive additives, and unit water were selected as parameters, using portland blast-furnace slag cement. And, bleeding test, expansibility test, hydration heat analysis were performed. As a results, when 35% of limestone Powder, 6% CSA expansive additives are replaced at unit water 175kg/$\textrm{m}^3$, demanded performances of fresh and hardened self-compaction concrete are accomplished.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.85-88
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to design the self-compaction concrete mixture, having not only high strength but also compensation of shrinkage without thermal crack under 4 sides outer restraint of the member. In the experimental mix, replacement ratio of limestone Powder, CSA expansive additives, and unit water were selected as parameters, using portland blast-furnace slag cement. And, bleeding test, expansibility test. hydration heat analysis were performed. As a results, when 35% of limestone Powder, 6% CSA expansive additives are replaced at unit water 175kg/$\textrm{m}^3$, demanded performances of fresh and hardened self-compaction concrete are accomplished.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.167-175
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• 1995

A temperature-analysis program, named ${\ulcorner}TAMCON{\lrcorner}$, was developed to predict the temperature rise due to the heat of hydration in hardening concrete. Finite element method was employed to facilitate the temperature analysis for the structures with complex geometry and various boundary conditions. In order to test the validity of the program, the results obtained from TAMCON for the wall-t.ype structure and the mat foundation were compared with the numerical analysis anti experimental data reported previously. As a result, it was found that they were in good agreement. TAMCON may be useful for the temperature control to restrain thermal cracking and the construction management to design the reasonable curing method in mass concrete.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.173-188
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• 2016

Generally, thermal stress induced by hydration heat causes cracking in mass concrete structures, requiring a thorough control during the construction. The prediction of the thermal stress is currently undertaken by means of numerical analysis despite its lack of reliability due to the properties of concrete varying over time. In this paper, a method for the prediction of thermal stress in concrete structures by adjusting thermal stress measured by a thermal stress device according to the degree of restraint is proposed to improve the prediction accuracy. The ratio of stress in concrete structures to stress under complete restraint is used as the degree of restraint. To consider the history of the degree of restraint, incremental stress is predicted by comparing the degree of restraint and the incremental stress obtained by the thermal stress device. Furthermore, the thermal stresses of wall and foundation predicted by the proposed method are compared to those obtained by numerical analysis. The thermal stresses obtained by the proposed method are similar to those obtained by the analysis for structures with internally as well as externally strong restraint. It is therefore concluded that the prediction of thermal stress for concrete structures with various boundary conditions using the proposed method is suggested to be accurate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.25-33
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• 2015

In this study, initial crack index was evaluated by FEM analysis to find the crack propagation from hydration heat in precast concrete. As results, as the usage of hardening accelerator increased, initial compressive strength increased and setting time was shortened. Additionally, as amounts of hardening accelerators increased, the central temperature of concrete increased and the time to reach the highest temperature was shortened. It was demonstrated that the hardening accelerators accelerated the hydration reaction of cement, and caused the increase of hydration heat within the short period of time. Furthermore, the crack index for evaluating the heat level was performed by FEM. As results, there was no problem about the cracks, despite of the growth of initial high hydration heat. This is because of the increased tensile strength that is large enough to sustain the thermally induced-stress.