Research Article

Reduction of the Early Autogenous Shrinkage of High Strength Concrete

Table 7

Comparison of the autogenous shrinkage of 24- and 48-hour-old non-reinforced and fibre-reinforced concretes, and their associated 28-day compressive strengths.

Concrete mixAdditional measure
[][][MPa]

C2/−0.203−0.23581.4
M3Added steel fibres−0.165−0.19292.1
M4Added premoistened polypropylene fibres−0.064−0.11778.1