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This chapter provides an introduction to the State of the Art Report (STAR) produced by RILEM Technical Committee 254-CMS ‘Thermal Cracking of Massive Concrete Structures’. Several recent developments related to the old problem of understanding/predicting stresses originated from the evolution of the hydration of the concrete are at the origin of the creation of this technical committee. Having identified that there was a lack in the organization of up-to-date scientific and technological knowledge about cracking induced by hydration heat effects, it was decided to establish this STAR. It aims to provide both practitioners and scientists with a deep integrated overview of consolidated knowledge, together with recent developments on this subject.
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Fairbairn, E.M.R., Azenha, M. (2019). Introduction. In: Fairbairn, E., Azenha, M. (eds) Thermal Cracking of Massive Concrete Structures. RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76617-1_1
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