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A Novel Multiscale Modelling Approach For Evaluation Of The Asr In Concrete Structures, Mostafa Jalal, M Mirsayar, Anol Mukhopadhyay

International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures

This paper presents a new multiscale approach for evaluation of the volume change in concrete structures due to the alkali-silica reaction (ASR). A practical step by step approach that can be applied to the real structures is developed based on combined experimental and numerical assessment by considering the most influential ASR parameters at different scales. In the first step, the ASR expansion is measured using accelerated concrete cylinder test (ACCT) for different concrete mixtures covering different variables of important factors such as mix design (e.g., w/cm, fly ash type and replacement percentages), aggregate reactivity, alkali loadings, temperature, and relative humidity …