{"title":"High-Performance Lightweight Concrete for the Precast Prestressed Concrete Industry","authors":"F. Curcio, D. Galeota, A. Gallo, M. M. Giammatteo","doi":"10.14359/6051","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive experimental program was designed in order to investigate the mechanical and durability properties of high performance lightweight concrete. The concrete mixture was prepared in order to obtain a specific value of the compressive strength at 28 days of age (75 MPa). Testing was carried out on a large number of lightweight concrete specimens. The following properties were investigated: compressive, flexural and splitting-tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, fracture parameters, concrete-steel bond properties, drying shrinkage and durability properties. The test results show that high-performance lightweight concrete has considerable potential for the precast/prestressed industry.","PeriodicalId":255305,"journal":{"name":"SP-179: Fourth CANMET/ACI/JCI Conference: Advances in Concrete Technology","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SP-179: Fourth CANMET/ACI/JCI Conference: Advances in Concrete Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14359/6051","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A comprehensive experimental program was designed in order to investigate the mechanical and durability properties of high performance lightweight concrete. The concrete mixture was prepared in order to obtain a specific value of the compressive strength at 28 days of age (75 MPa). Testing was carried out on a large number of lightweight concrete specimens. The following properties were investigated: compressive, flexural and splitting-tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, fracture parameters, concrete-steel bond properties, drying shrinkage and durability properties. The test results show that high-performance lightweight concrete has considerable potential for the precast/prestressed industry.