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Table 15.1
Preconditioning of concrete specimens
Reference
Initial
curing conditions
Carbonat
i
on chamber
Temp.
(°C)
RH
(%)
CO
2
concentration
(%)
Papadakis (2000)
1 month laboratory
conditions
25
61
3
Buyle-Bodin and Hadjieva-
Zaharieva (2002)
20
65
0.03
Otsuki et al. (2003)
40
70
10
Atis (2003)
20
65
5
Katz (2003)
30
60
5
Bai et al. (2002)
20
65
4
Chang and Chen (2006)
28 days water cured
23
70
20
Khunthongkeaw et al.
(2006)
28 days water cured
40
55
4
Villain et al. (2007)
3 month water cured
20
53
45
Dinakar et al. (2007)
28 days water cured
exposed to the outdoor
atmosphere during 12 months
Gonen and Yazicioglu
(2007)
28 days in a moisture
chamber
55
40
Dhir et al. (2007)
20
65
0.035
20
65
4
Kulakowski et al. (2009)
28 days in a moisture
chamber
≥
50
Wassermann et al. (2009)
30
50
5
Abbas et al. (2009)
28-day curing period
23
60
3
Roziere et al. (2009)
28 days water cured
20
65
50
Shi et al. (2009)
90 days curing
20
70
20
Chatveera and
Lertwattanaruk (2011)
28-day curing period
23
70
0.03
Sim and Park (2011)
100% RH during 7
days plus 14 days in
laboratory conditions
30
60
10
Zega and Di Maio (2011)
exposed to an urban industrial
natural environment
Werle et al. (2011)
cured in water for 63
days
70
1
Limbachiya et al. (2012)
28 days water curing
plus 14 days cured in
dry air
20
65
3
Lovato et al. (2012)
63 days plus 16 days at
25 °C and of 65% RH
21
65
6
Zhao et al. (2012)
26 days curing
20
70
20
