Title: High-Strength Concrete in the Netherlands

Author(s): Joost Walraven

Publication: Symposium Paper

Volume: 167

Issue:

Appears on pages(s): 103-126

Keywords: Anchorage (structural); biaxial loads; compression; creep properties; high-performance concretes; joints (junctions); shear properties.

DOI: 10.14359/6283

Date: 3/1/1997

Abstract:
In order to enable rational and safe design with high performance concrete recommendations for this material are necessary. In the Netherlands an extended research program has been carried out focusing on aspects like behaviour in compression at various loading rates, shear friction in cracks, in-plane loading of cracked reinforced elements, splitting effects in the anchorage zone of prestressing strands, joints between precast columns, and creep. Furthermore trial casts have been carried out in order to get more experience with HPC at the building site. A four storey office building was completely built in HPC. During construction the temperature of the hardening concrete was measured at many locations, in order to investigate the development of temperature stresses and to get indications of the cracking probability. More-over a section of a box girder bridge was cast as an exercise for the construction of a 160 m span bridge in 1996. Both the labora-tory experiments and the site trials raised the confidence in suc-cessful applications of high performance concrete.