Advances in Construction Materials 2007

composite under dynamic loading.- An Experimental Study on Bending Behavior of Cementitious Composites Reinforced in Combination with Carbon Textile and Short-Cut PVA Fiber.- Repair Materials and Strengthening Methods.- Performance of concrete patch repair systems.- Repair of cracked reinforced concrete by injection after accidental loading.- Seismic strengthening of piers with partial use of high ductility cement.- Sprayed GFRP shear-strengthened reinforced concrete Beams under Impact Loading.- High Temperature and Fire Resistance.- High Strength Fiber Composites for fabricating fire-resistant wood with improved mechanical properties.- Mechanical properties of SFRC at high temperatures.- Modifications of material properties due to elevated temperatures.- Corrosion and Durability.- Influence of cyclic loading on the degradation of mechanical concrete properties.- A material model for creep and fatigue applied to asphalt.- Simulation of the cyclic loading and damage behavior of gypsum composites.- Superabsorbent Polymers - An Additive to Increase the Freeze-Thaw Resistance of High Strength Concrete.- Corrosion products pressure needed to crack the concrete cover.- Failure mechanisms in fatigue of high strength steel wires for cable-constructions.- Durability aspects of AR-glass-reinforcement in textile reinforced concrete, Part 1: Material behaviour.- Durability aspects of AR-glass-reinforcement in textile reinforced concrete, Part 2: Modelling and exposure to outdoor weathering.- Stress corrosion cracking mechanism of prestressing steels in bicarbonate solutions.- Moisture Transport in Concrete - Field Tests and Hygrothermal Simulations.- Impact of Freeze-Thaw Degradation on FRP-Concrete Interface Fracture.- Effective chloride barrier for reinforced concrete structures in order to extend the service-life.- Properties, Modeling and Testing of Fresh Concrete.- Setting and hardening of cement based materials: which differences between mortars and concretes?.- Mechanical properties of cement mortars with superabsorbent polymers.- Formwork Pressure of Concretes with high Workability.- Modern statistical methods for accessing the hardening process of concrete.- Virtual concrete laboratory - Continuous numerical modelling of concrete from fresh to the hardened state.- Detection of early-age cracking due to restrained autogenous shrinkage.- Ultrasonic and calorimetric measurements on fresh concrete with blast-furnace slag.- Fresh concrete pressure in diaphragm wall panels and resulting deformations.- SCC and UHPC - Effect of Mixing Technology on Fresh Concrete Properties.- Analytical model for hydration of blended cement.- Nucleation and growth of C-S-H phases on mineral admixtures.- Improving the slipform process via material manipulation.- Non-destructive Testing Methods and Applications.- Sensing methods in civil engineering for an efficient construction management.- Fast Non-Destructive Localisation of Prestressing Steel Fractures in Post-Tensioned Concrete Bridges.- New Possibilities for Ultrasonic Imaging of Concrete Elements.- Quantitative Non-Destructive Testing: The integration of non-destructive testing and probabilistic fracture mechanics.- Advances in the in-situ assessment of construction materials.- Detection and analysis of microcracks in high-performance cementitious materials.- Acoustic Emission Techniques for Rebar Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete.- Online-Monitoring of Thermal Restraint Stresses for a Railways Trough Structure due to the Coupling of Trough and Underwater Concrete Slab.- Radar and Fusion for Concrete Elements.- Inspection of Prestressed Concrete Members using the Magnetic Leakage Flux Measurement Method - Estimation of Detection Limit.- Environment and Sustainability.- Abatement of Acid Mine Drainage Using Industrial Waste Products.- Finely Ground Sand Fraction of Concrete Rubble as a Supplementary Cementitious Material.- Numerical Simulation of Air-Steam Leakage Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Walls.- Sustainable building with concrete - a holistic approach along the Life-Cycle.- Dangerous Substances in Building Materials - Emissions from PCB Coated Ceiling Panels - Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) in Indoor Air.- Demountable concrete buildings, structural design of floor slabs with concrete elements and aluminium foam.- Reduction of the Penetration of Water-Hazardous Liquids into Concrete using Silica Fume and Polymer Dispersions.- Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Materials.- Tension Softening Curves Described by Algebraic Formulas and Artificial Neural Networks.- Effects of a clay additive on the properties of no-slump concrete.- Development of thermal insulation materials with granular phase change composite.- Examination of the relation between tensile/flexural strength and compressive strength of autoclaved aerated concrete according to prEN 12602.- Modern perspectives on aggregate in concrete.- Research developments and experimental data on dynamic concrete behaviour.