Tensile basic creep of early-age concrete under constant load

Viscoelastic behavior of early-age normal and high-strength concrete has been investigated. The study shows that concrete exhibits high tensile creep strain if loaded at an age less than or equal to I day, The investigations furthermore show that the creep strain is not proportional to the stress level in the specimen when loading occurs at I day. Creep experiments were also carried out on concretes with different w/c ratios and some qualitative comments are made. Finally, an approach for mathematical modeling of early-age creep for normal concrete was explored. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.