Abstract: A constitutive relation that can describe tensile strain softening with or without simultaneous creep and shrinkage is presented, and an efficient time‐step numerical integration algorithm, called the exponential algorithm, ...

Abstract: An improved creep law for concrete at constant temperature and water content is proposed. It gives the creep rate as a product of power functions of the load duration, the age at loading and the current age of concrete. ...

Abstract: A previous material model for the increase of creep of concrete caused by simultaneous drying is extended to describe the effect of both drying and wetting, as well as the increase of creep caused by temperature changes, ...

Abstract: For creep analysis of large structural systems, the linear aging integral‐type creep law needs to be converted to a rate‐type form which consists of a system of first‐order linear differential equations with age‐dependent ...

Abstract: Creep and shrinkage of concrete may lead to excess long-term deflection in concrete members, especially in prestressed concrete structures. The long-term vertical deflection of a segmentally constructed prestressed concrete ...

Abstract: This paper continues the preceding study on the long-term deflection control of prestressed concrete bridges. In this paper, an experimental study is first presented. The objectives of the experimental program are to check ...