Design, Production and Placement of Self-Consolidating Concrete

Abstract

Mix Design for SCC.- Design and Flow of Powder-type SCC with Crushed Aggregates.- Structural Design with Flowable - A fib-Recommendation for Tailor-Made Concrete.- Effect of Material Constituents and Mix Design on Performance of SCC for Precast, Prestressed Girders.- Robustness by Mix Design - A New Approach for Mixture Proportioning of SCC.- Chemical Admixtures.- Smart Polycarboxylate Design for SCC in Precast Applications.- Effects of Superplasticizer and Viscosity-Modifying Agent on Fresh Concrete Performance of SCC at Varied Ambient Temperatures.- Selecting Admixtures to Achieve Application-Required Rheology.- Rheology and Workability of SCC.- Effect of Cement on Superplasticizer Adsorption, Yield Stress, Thixotropy and Segregation Resistance.- Effect of Metakaolin on the Rheology of Self-Consolidating Concrete.- Segregation of Coarse Aggregates in Self-Compacting Concrete.- Estimating Measurement Artifacts in Concrete Rheometers from MRI Measurement on Model Materials.- Evaluation of Fresh Properties of Self-Consolidating Concrete under Long Transportation Time and Extreme Temperature.- Production and Placement of SCC.- Similarities and Differences of Pumping Conventional and Self-Compacting Concrete.- Flow of SCC along Surfaces.- Optimisation of the Mixing Process for Producing Self-Compacting High-Performance Concrete.- Flow Modeling of SCC.- Computational Modeling of SCC Flow through Reinforced Sections.- Simulation and Testing of the Grout Backfill Process in a Case-Study Related to a Nuclear Waste Disposal Gallery.- Prediction of the Impact of Flow-Induced Inhomogeneities in Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC).- Formwork Pressure of SCC.- Influence of Rheological Properties of Pourable Concrete on Formwork Pressure.- Prediction of SCC Formwork Pressure in Full-Scale Elements.- Modeling Fresh Concrete Pressure of Normal and Self-Compacting Concrete.- Formwork Pressure of Highly Workable Concrete - Experiments Focused on Setting, Vibration and Design Approach.- Properties of Hardened SCC.- Drying Shrinkage of SCC - Influence of the Composition of Ternary Composite Cements.- Properties of Low-Shrinkage, High-Strength SCC Using Shrinkage-Reducing Admixture, Blast Furnace Slag and Limestone Aggregates.- Plastic Shrinkage Evaluation of Self-Consolidating Concrete as Repair Materials Based on Restrained and Free Strain Measurements.- Acceleration of Hardening Kinetics of SCC.- Time Evolution of Properties of SCC Mixtures Produced Using Crushed Limestone Aggregate and High Content of Limestone Filler.- Effect of Freezing-Thawing Cycles on the Resistance of Self-Consolidating Concrete to Sulfate Attack.- Bond Strength of SCC.- Bond Behaviour and Shear Capacity of Self-Compacting Concrete.- Top-Bar Effect in Self-Compacting Concrete Elements.- Effect of Rheology of SCC on Bond Strength of Ribbed Reinforcement Bars.- Development Length of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Bars in Self-Consolidating Concrete.- Design and Performance of Fiber-Reinforced SCC.- Design with Highly Flowable Fiber-Reinforced Concrete: Overview of the Activity of fib TG 8.8.- Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Materials: From Intrinsic Isotropic Behavior to Fiber Alignment.- Flow-Induced Fiber Orientation in SCSFRC: Monitoring and Prediction.- Shear Behavior of Self-Compacting Concrete and Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Push-Off Specimens.- Long-Term Behaviour of Fiber-Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete Beams.