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Strategies for REACT
- Coarser Cements
- Report 1: Early-Age Properties of Cement-Based Materials: I. Influence of Cement Fineness
- Report 2: Reducing Thermal and Autogenous Shrinkage Contributions to Early-Age Cracking (923423)
- Increase w/c Ratio
- Report 1: Early-Age Properties of Cement-Based Materials: II. Influence of Water-to-Cement Ratio
- Report 2: Reducing Thermal and Autogenous Shrinkage Contributions to Early-Age Cracking
- Coarse Limestone Addition
- Report 1: Reducing Thermal and Autogenous Shrinkage Contributions to Early-Age Cracking
- Report 2: Limestone Fillers to Conserve Cement in Low w/cm Concretes: An Analysis Based on Powers’ Model(923437)
- Internal Curing
- Report 1: Volume change and cracking in internally cured mixtures made with saturated lightweight aggregate under sealed and unsealed conditions(923438)
- Report 2: Internal Curing of High-Performance Blended Cement Mortars
- Other Properties
- Plastic Shrinkage
- Sorptivity
- Reduced Diffusion
- Service Life
- Report 1: VERDiCT: Viscosity Enhancers Reducing Diffusion in Concrete Technology
- Report 2: Doubling the Service Life of Concrete Structures. II: Performance of Nanoscale Viscosity Modifiers in Mortars
- Report 3: Using Viscosity Modifiers to Reduce Effective Diffusivity in Mortars
- Report 4: Viscosity Modifiers to Enhance Concrete Performance (923440)
- Report 5: Influence of Internal Curing and Viscosity Modifiers on Resistance to Sulfate Attack
- Service Life
- Reduced Diffusion
- Sorptivity
- Plastic Shrinkage
- Other Properties
- Shrinkage reducing admixtures
- Report 1: Curing with Shrinkage-Reducing Admixtures
- Report 2: Shrinkage-Reducing Admixtures and Early Age Desiccation in Cement Pastes and Mortars
- Other Properties
- Plastic Shrinkage
REACT: SRA for reducing plastic shrinkage
The seminal work in this area was performed at Purdue University and published as: Lura, P., Pease, B., Mazzotta, G., Rajabipour, F., and Weiss, J., "Influence of Shrinkage-Reducing Admixtures on the Development of Plastic Shrinkage Cracks," ACI Materials Journal, 104, No. 2, 187-194, 2007.- Freezing Susceptibility
- Reduced Diffusion
- Freezing Susceptibility
- Plastic Shrinkage
- Other Properties
- Best Practices
- High Volume Fly Ash
- Thermal Properties
- Mechanical Properties
- Mitigating Delayed Setting
- Report 1: Evaluation of Sustainable High-Volume Fly Ash Concretes
- Report 2: Rheology and setting of high volume fly ash mixtures
- Report 3: Fine Limestone Additions to Regulate Setting in High Volume Fly Ash Mixtures
- Report 4: Reducing Set Retardation in High Volume Fly Ash Mixtures with the Use of Limestone: Improving Constructability for Sustainability 923441
- Report 5: Application of internal curing for mixtures containing high volumes of fly ash
- Report 6: Enhancing the Performance of High Volume Fly Ash Concretes Using Fine Limestone Powder
- Report 7: Ternary Blends for Controlling Cost and Carbon Content 923442
- Report 8: Fluid Transport in High-Volume Fly Ash Mixtures with and without Internal Curing
- Mitigating Delayed Setting
- Mechanical Properties
- Thermal Properties
- High Volume Fly Ash
Created April 9, 2017, Updated May 5, 2017