A Coupled AC Impedance – Creep and Shrinkage Investigation of Hardened Cement Paste.pdfVIP

A Coupled AC impedance – creep and shrinkage investigation of hardened cement paste Tamtsia, B.T. ; Beaudoin, J.J. ; Marchand, J. NRCC-43925 A version of this document is published in / Une version de ce document se trouve dans: Materials and Structures, v. 36, April 2003, pp. 147-155 http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ircpubs A Coupled AC Impedance – Creep and Shrinkage Investigation of Hardened Cement Paste 1 1 2 Tamtsia T. Basile , Beaudoin J. James and Marchand Jacques (1) Institute for Research in Construction, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0R6 (2) Department of Civil Engineering, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4 Paper received: December 17, 2002 Paper accepted: January 10, 2003 ABSTRACT RÉSUMÉ The effect of three pre-drying treatments (prior L’effet de trois traitements de pré-séchage (suivi to re-saturation with synthetic pore fluid) on time d’une resaturation avec une solution interstitielle dependent deformation was investigated. synthétique) sur les déformations différées a été The pre-drying treaments comprised methanol investigué. and isopropanol exchange (followed by vacuum Les traitements de pré-séchage consistes au heating at 37°C) and vacuum drying at 37°C alone. séchage sous vide à 37°C d’éprouvettes avant et Real-time changes in microstructure due to après