Dimensional stability

Short- and long-term deformations of concrete are influenced by many factors and the following sections consider the main ones related to four types of deformations: elastic strain, creep, shrinkage and thermal movement. The deformations are treated independently of each other, which may not be fundamentally correct but that approach has been used historically and is the basis on which prediction methods in Codes of Practice have been developed.

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