2010 Volume 62 Issue 4 Pages 327-330
In this study, in order to understand the behavior of water in the cracks quantitatively, a study conducted water absorption and desiccation test with in cracked concrete specimens. It was found that immersion in water was almost the same as rain exposure when considering the behavior of absorption water. Therefore, the immersion in water was used as a water absorption test. These results found that the difference of crack width set by this experiment hardly influenced the behavior of water absorption and the water content ratio in the cracks immediately exceeded 90%. The water desiccation test showed that the difference of the water content ratio hardly influenced the behavior of water desiccation. The time for water desiccation completely was much longer than water absorption.[This abstract is not included in the PDF]
