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The drying shrinkage of concrete is analogous to the mechanism of drying of timber specimen. The loss of free water contained in hardened concrete, does not result in any appreciable dimension change. It is the loss of water held in gel pores that causes the change in the volume.
A shrinkage stress analysis method is proposed for concrete slabs with shrinkage strips employed as temporary joints to reduce shrinkage cracks in a multistory building.