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Assessing the Level of Concrete Hardening by the Maturity Method Cover
Open Access
|Feb 2022

Abstract

Curing levels under standardized temperature and humidity conditions of concrete (but also for medium temperature conditions in the range of +5 o C → +35 o C, maximum +40 o C, depending on the type of cement used in the preparation of concrete, in order not to record final resistance losses) can be plotted graphically with a single chart for all concrete grades prepared with the same type of cement at different ages.

Each concrete hardening diagram corresponds to a degree of maturation, defined as the area between the average temperature plot of the concrete and the -10 ° C order, over time, so that only resistance based on the temperature measurement during the curing can be evaluated (or the level of hardening) of the concrete necessary for the technological process - decofing, precompression force transfer, acceptance of freezing of the concrete without adverse effects, precast concrete transport etc., but also the necessary times for starting a technological process.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipca-2021-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2068-4762 | Journal ISSN: 1224-3884
Language: English
Page range: 57 - 65
Submitted on: Jan 28, 2021
Accepted on: Mar 21, 2021
Published on: Feb 18, 2022
Published by: Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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