Performance of RC slabs under the combined effect of applied loads and restrained shrinkage

Funding provided by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) to the Research Projects PTDC/ECM/099250/2008, EXPL/ECMEST/1323/2013 and PTDC/ECM-EST/1056/2014 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016841), as well to the Research Units ISISE (POCI-01-0145-FEDER007633) and CONSTRUCT (POCI-01-0145-FEDER007457) is gratefully acknowledged. A word of acknowledgment is also given to the help provided by Margarida Vieira, who assisted the experimental work in the course of her MSc thesis. The authors would also like to acknowledge the benefits of crosslinking research through the network of COST Action TU1404 “Towards the next generation of standards for service life of cement-based materials and structures” (www.tu1404.eu).