Professor Bazant's concerns regarding the estimation of unrestrained drying shrinkage values for cement paste must be resolved if such values are to be used in the prediction of concrete shrinkage. We are in full agreement with regard to his statements about concrete. The presence of rigid, nonshrin
A reply to discussion by J. Baron and M. Buil of the Paper “Mechanical features of chemical shrinkage of cement paste”
✍ Scribed by Nava Setter; Della M. Roy
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-8846
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✦ Synopsis
We thank J. Baron and M. Buil for their reference to our work and for the interesting comparison they have made with their experimental results.
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