Browsing by Author "Schindler, Anton"

Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring has proven to be a useful nondestructive testing tool in ordinary reinforced concrete beams. Over the past decade, however, the technique has been used to test other concrete structures ...

Portland cement manufacturing involves the combustion of fuels with various raw materials at approximately 2,700 °F (1,500 °C) to produce clinker. Fuel costs and environmental concerns have encouraged the cement industry ...

The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is a fundamental property of portland cement concrete. It represents the change in unit length of concrete per degree of temperature change. The CTE is a very important property ...

Fly ash is commonly used as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in the production of portland cement concrete. Concrete produced with high fly ash replacement levels is considered high volume fly ash (HVFA) concrete. ...

This thesis is aimed at quantifying the shrinkage and creep behavior of the I-59/I-20 segmental bridge located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Also, two laboratory concrete mixtures of different coarse aggregate types ...

Special precautions must be taken when constructing concrete elements designated as mass concrete. These precautions may be satisfied through the formation of a mass concrete specification. Temperature requirements must ...

In concrete construction projects, quality assurance test cylinders are made to evaluate the quality of the concrete delivered to a jobsite. In order to accurately evaluate these cylinders, they must be cured according to ...

Nitinol is a shape memory alloy that has recently been studied for its suitability as a material in energy dissipation devices in structures. The alloy has excellent structural capabilities in terms of strength and ...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of initial curing temperature and duration on the 28-day compressive strength of concrete. To determine the relationship between initial curing temperature and duration ...

Due to increasing design requirements and the advancement in technology, deep foundations have become larger and more congested over the years. Reinforcement congestion required to resist high lateral forces, has lead to ...