Self compacting concrete 1st edition

by Ahmed Loukili (Editor)

Self compacting concrete (SCCs), highly fluid concretes placed without vibration, were introduced into French construction works towards the end of the 1990s.

The concept came into being a decade earlier in Prof. Okumara’s laboratory [OKA 00] in Japan. The high seismicity of this geographical region requires the use of high levels of steel reinforcement in construction.

The use of “self-compacting” concretes appeared as a solution to improve the filling up of zones which are not very accessible to conventional methods of concrete compaction.

This solution also has the advantage of overcoming the gradual decline in the number of workers qualified to handle and place concrete.

Self compacting concrete (SCC) is a relatively new building material.

Nowadays, its use is progressively changing the method of concrete placement on building sites.

However, the successful use of Self compacting concrete requires a good understanding of the behavior of this material, which is vastly different from traditional concrete.

For this purpose, a lot of research has been conducted on this area all over the world since 10 years.

Intended for both practitioners and scientists, this book provides research results from the rheological behavior of fresh concrete to durability.