Experimental and Numerical Quantification of Plastic Settlement in Fresh Cementitious Systems

In this paper, the plastic settlement of mortar is analyzed on the basis of small strain consolidation theory and the approach is compared with experimental data. The amount of settlement caused by the self-weight of bulk mortar was measured using a noncontact laser measurement device. In addition, tests were performed on systems containing different geometries of embedded reinforcement to measure the effect of specimen and inclusion geometry on...