Guide for the Use of Shrinkage

Description Shrinkage-compensating concrete is made with an expansivecement or expansive component system in which initialexpansion, if properly restrained, offsets strains caused bydrying shrinkage. Since the mid-1960s, shrinkage-compensating concrete has been used in many applications. These applications include highway and airport pavements,bridge decks (Gruner and Plain 1993; Ramey et al. 1999),hydraulic structures, wastewater treatment plants, containmentstructures […]