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D. Suza, J. Kollegger:
"Improving the Quality of Prediction Models for Concrete Creep and Shrinkage";
Talk: fib Symposium 2016, Cape Town; 2016-11-21 - 2016-11-23; in: "Performance-Based Approaches For Concrete Structures", (2016), ISBN: 978-2-88394-120-5; 259 - 260.

In order to design sustainable and economically valuable engineering and architectural structures out of reinforced or pre-stressed concrete it is necessary to create realistic and practical models for the material behaviour.
The appropriate modelling of the processes, initiated by the discharge of hydration heat, shrinkage and creep, that occur in young concrete, are crucial for the subsequent durability of engineering structures. Even though the Eurocode and Model Code are nowadays available to the design engineers, the real behaviour of concrete in engineering structures is not always described with sufficient accuracy.
In order to obtain accurate rheologic models of actual structures it is of great importance to develop models and methods by using specific experimental measurements on specimens with dimensions that are commonly used in the field and to compare the obtained results from the large-scale specimens to the data measured on concrete cylinders in the laboratory.

Balanced Lift Method, Bridge, Construction sequence, Creep, Numerical analysis

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_257216.pdf