During the initial design phases for prestressed concrete structures, the necessary information concerning the physical properties of the hardened concrete such as creep, drying shrinkage, modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio and coefficient of ther...
During the initial design phases for prestressed concrete structures, the necessary information concerning the physical properties of the hardened concrete such as creep, drying shrinkage, modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio and coefficient of thermal expansion are obtained from design assumptions, accepted design criteria or formula calculations. Although these values are based upon sound engineering logic or standard recommended practice of design, they may not totally reflect the actual long-term behaviour of the concrete. As a result, these assumptions may be of limited use in predicting the actual long-term behavior of the concrete under conditions of actual design loads during periods of change in temperature, load or pressure.
For these reasons, the creep test has generally conducted under simulated laboratory conditions of anticipated design loading and temperature environments in order to provide a realistic basis for comparing the original design assumptions with the actual measured long-term physical properties of the concrete. Extensive research has been carried out a comprehensive laboratory investigation of the effects of age, curing history, temperature of environment and constant creep loading upon the physical properties of given concrete mix to predict the long-term creep coefficient and shrinkage.
This paper presents specific creep values with various types of experimental data and also shows comparisons for specific creep between from test results and from creep prediction equations to evaluate the applicability of creep prediction equations of Korean Concrete Standard Specification, ACI-209, CEB/FIP-90 and Japanese Concrete Standard Specification.