• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.79-88
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• 2000

Usually, the expansive additives is used to prevent the occurrence of drying shrinkage in concrete. However it may sometimes be over-added in field due to the insufficient cognition of constructor's, which may cause the serious problems in concrete structures. In this study the experiments are performed to present the expansion properties of concrete by varying the water to binder ratios, unit contents of expansive additives and curing conditions. By the results, the strength showed an increase with the addition of expansion additives from 30kg/㎥ up to 50kg/㎥, and a great decrease by contraries if the larger amount are added. Also the more the expansion additives were used, the more length change occurred in concrete. In view of the curing conditions, the concrete by air cured appeared a little expansion even the unit expansion additives increased, which showed an opposite inclination of that with standard curing. This could be explained by the less occurrence of hydration in air condition which also lead to the little expansion of concrete. Hence the expansion concrete to be cured in water or moisture condition became an especial important thing. concrete using expansive additives showed that high expansion was taken place with the rise of temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.143-146
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• 1999

This study is intended to investigate the properties of expansion of concrete under various curing environment with expansive additives. In construction field, expansive additives, which are anaiable to prevent from the diverse cracks caused by drying shrinkage are not expected to accomplish the expantion we expected because of both the absence of the know ledge change, loss of weight and dynamic of elasticty under various unit contents of expansive additives and curing condtion.