Creep, Shrinkage and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures

Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot is a Professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France. Bruno Gérard is a researcher at OXAND, France. Paul Acker is a researcher at Lafarge, France.

• Micromechanisms and micromechanics of creep and shrinkage. Drying, shrinkage and creep. Multiphase and multiscale approaches to creep, shrinkage and durability. Interaction between creep and fracture in concrete and concrete-likematerials. Size effect in concrete creep, shrinkage and durability. Core properties of early-age concrete. Constitutive modeling and computational approaches to creep, shrinkageand durability. Deterioration kinetics of concrete structures in aggressive environments.Chemo-mechanics of concrete deterioration. Monitoring the durability performances of concrete structures. Large-scale monitoring of creep, shrinkage and cracking of structures. Model-based monitoring of cracking and durability in early-age structures. Creep and shrinkage of new concrete products. Shrinkage reducing methods and agents. From creep, shrinkage and durability experiments to the design ofconcrete structures. Creep, shrinkage and durability in structural mechanics, standardrecommendations and codes. Uncertainty and probabilistic modeling of creep and durability.