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Forewords	p. 15
Chapter 1 Creep Mechanisms and Creep-Fracture Interaction	p. 17
Nanostructure of C-S-H gel in cement paste as a function of curing conditions and relative humidity	p. 19
Investigation on creep mechanisms of hardened cement paste by means of the small angle X-ray scaterring method	p. 39
Is the behaviour of the concrete viscolelastic linear?	p. 45
Creep monitoring in concrete structures by the acoustic emission technique	p. 51
Rate dependent fracture on notched plain concrete beams	p. 57
Bending basic creep experiments: influence on fracture characteristics	p. 63
Stability analysis of creep failure in concrete	p. 69
Chapter 2 Modelling of Creep and Shrinkage	p. 75
Modelling of concrete as a multiphase viscious porous material	p. 77
A proposed method for determining the drying kinetics in concrete	p. 83
Drying shrinkage as a viscoelastic response due to internal pressures	p. 89
The influence of specific surface area of coarse aggregate on drying shrinkage of concrete	p. 95
Microcracking of mortars during drying: effects on delayed behaviours	p. 101
Mesomechanical modeling of drying shrinkage using interface elements	p. 107
Upscalling techniques for modeling the basic creep of cement paste	p. 113
Influence of capilarry effects on strenght of non saturated porous media	p. 119
Interface crack propagation in viscoelastic discrete model	p. 125
Nonlinear, incremental structural analysis for the design and construction of massive concrete structures	p. 131
Chapter 3 Multiphase and Multiscale Approaches to Shrinkage	p. 137
Colloidal mechanisms of hygral volume change of hardened cement paste	p. 139
Time dependent structural analysis considering mass transfer	p. 151
Fracture of cement-based materials under hygral-mechanical loading	p. 163
A poro-mechanical modeling approach for concrete autogeneous shrinkage	p. 169
The coupling effect of drying shrinkage and moisure diffusion in concrete	p. 175
Plastic damage modelling of concrete subjected to desiccation	p. 181
Chapter 4 Durability	p. 187
A probabilistic approach to the long term durability of concrete structures	p. 189
Chemical and mechanical description of leached concrete: Experimental results and theoretical modelling	p. 195
Leached concrete compressive creep	p. 201
Expansion of hardened cement paste in saline solutions	p. 207
Measuring permeability and bulk modulus of cementitious materials	p. 213
Effect of localized cracking on chloride diffusivity and gas permeability in concrete. Experimental study	p. 219
Modeling for fixation of chloride ions in pore solution	p. 225
A micromechanical approach to ASR-induced damage in concrete	p. 231
Influence of basic creep on the modelling of structures subjected to alkali aggregate reaction	p. 237
Fracture properties in mortars exposed to alkali-silica reaction	p. 243
Chapter 5 Creep and shrinkage in Structures	p. 249
Influence of ambient conditions on concrete shrinkage	p. 251
Early performance of structural concrete slabs treated with a hydrophobic admixture	p. 257
Time-dependent behaviour of reinforced recycled concrete beams	p. 263
Creep in compression of concrete core taken in a real structure - analysis of two years of measures and extrapolation	p. 269
Time dependent behaviour of precast prestressed slabs with in-situ concrete topping	p. 275
Effect of differential moisture distribution on SRC column shortening	p. 281
Accounting for concrete shrinkage in the mechanistic empirical pavement design procedure	p. 287
Why is the initial trend of deflections of box girder bridges deceptive?	p. 293
Creep, shrinkage and durability effects in concrete girders components of bridges structures	p. 299
Long-term behaviour of a steel-concrete composite railway bridge deck	p. 305
Stress loss in prestressed concrete with PFBC coal ash	p. 311
Concrete delayed deformations of nuclear structures - Comparison between monitoring analysis and theoretical values	p. 317
Reliability based approach to predict long time behaviour of prestressed concrete containment vessel	p. 323
Creep analysis of NPP containment	p. 329
Impacts of the mechanical constitutive law on the hydraulic behaviour of a containment building	p. 335
An engineering approach for modelling the deteriorating effects of alkali aggregate reaction in concrete structures	p. 341
Numerical model for simulation of aging mechanisms of nuclear containment structures	p. 347
Analysis of the delayed behaviour of NPP containment building	p. 353
Chapter 6 Early Age Creep and Shrinkage: Experiments and Modelling	p. 359
Multiscale model for early-age creep of cementitious materials	p. 361
Compressive and tensile creep of young concrete with mineral additives	p. 369
Linear logarithmic creep model	p. 375
Effect of basic creep on the early-age behaviour of concrete	p. 381
Early age concrete creep. At high stress level	p. 387
Modelling of uni-axial constitutive law in early age concrete based on solidification concept	p. 393
A study on the method of estimating creep of early-age concrete	p. 399
Study of early age shrinkage, hydraulic pressure and conductivity of cement paste	p. 405
Effect of stress relaxation on thermal stresses	p. 411
Viscoelastic behaviour of early age salt concrete used in a repository for radioactive waste in a rock salt mine	p. 417
Autogeneous shrinkage and hydration degree of cement pastes at very early age: Influence of superplasticizer	p. 423
Early-age analysis of a foundation slab: sensitivity to creep parameters	p. 429
Comparison between tensile and compressive creep of early age high performance concrete (HPC)	p. 435
Development of stress erasing test on concrete specimens	p. 441
Chapter 7 Temperature Effects	p. 447
Concrete creep at high temperature and its interaction with fracture: Recent progress	p. 449
Transient thermal strains of high performance concretes	p. 461
Multiaxial creep and damage under elevated temperature	p. 473
Concrete tunnel linings under fire loading	p. 479
The spalling of heated concrete: Comparison between thermal and hydraulic spalling	p. 491
Evolution of intrinsic permeability in concrete at high temperature	p. 497
Transient thermal creep of HPC at high temperatures under accidental conditions	p. 503
"Transient thermal creep" of concrete: Intrinsic behaviour or structural effect?	p. 509
A comparative study of two THC models or concrete subject to high temperatures	p. 515
Chapter 8 Self Compacting Concrete	p. 521
A comparison between long term properties of self compacting concretes and normal vibrated concretes with same strength	p. 523
Influence of paste volume on fracture behaviour of SCC	p. 529
Creep of self compacting concrete	p. 535
Creep and shrinkage of self-compacting concrete and comparative study with model code	p. 541
Long-term deflection of reinforced SCC beams	p. 547
Delayed behaviour of self-compacting concrete	p. 553
Influence of limestone filler on chemical shrinkage and hydration of cement pastes at early age	p. 559
Chapter 9 High Performance Concrete	p. 565
Effect of size on creep and shrinkage of concrete - five years measurements	p. 567
Shrinkage and shrinkage cracking of high performance fibre reinforced cement-based composites	p. 573
Internally-cured high-performance concrete under restrained shrinkage and creep	p. 579
Creep and shrinkage of high performance lightweight aggregate concrete	p. 585
Mechanical behaviour of ultra high preformance fibre reinforced concretes (UHPFRC) at early age, under restraint	p. 591
Shrinkage effect on shear behaviour of reinforced HSC beams	p. 597
Creep of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC)	p. 603
Creep and shrinkage modelling of HPC	p. 609
Autogeneous shrinkage of CARDIFRC	p. 615
Creep and shrinkage for structures using dense concrete	p. 621
Temperature effect on shrinkage stress in expansive - ultra high strength concrete	p. 627
Actual state of research on autogeneous deformation and thermal dilatation at iBMB	p. 633
Index of authors	p. 639