• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.155-165
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• 1997

Since the biggest time-dependent prestress loss of reactor containment structure is due to creep of concrete. the creep is one of important structural factors to be considered for the safety maintenance in the containment structure during design. construction and main enance. This paper is about the creep charactoristies of concrete for the reactor containment structure. In this paper, creep test was performed to show the creep characteristics of reactor containment concrete structure made of the type-V cement. Then, in order to evaluate the applicability of creep prediction equations of recently revised Korean Concrete Standard Specification(KSCE-96) and Japanes Concrete Standard Specification. ACI-209. CEB/FIP-90. and HANSEN, creep test results were compared with prediction results obtained from he equations. From the comparisons, it was shown that the equation of th KSCE-96 predicts creep for younger concrete than 1 year, better than the other equations and that all of the equations predicts creep, for older concrete than 1 year, smaller than test. From regression analysis. a creep prediction equation which effectively predicts creep of concrete due to loading after 1year was proposed.