Testing for Pozzolanacity of Pozzolana for Concrete Proportioning
Dear reader we are discussing about pozzolana last week in our blogs “Foundation, Concrete and Earthquake Engineering”. Here in this post we will discuss about how to examine the pozzolanacity of...
View ArticleChemical Resistance of Concrete Made with High Alumina Cement
Concrete is a developing materials, still enrichment of its strength properties and durability properties is going on. We were publishing post about high performance concrete in the blog. In the...
View ArticleRelation between Admixture and Water/Cement Ratio of Concrete Mix
Dear reader we have learned about the factors that can influence water requirement of concrete. Of these, admixtures are the element that can greatly alter water requirements of concrete for...
View ArticleAdmixture Required for Flowing Concrete
We were discussing about flowing concrete in our last post. We know that plasticizers are applied in proportioning this concrete. We have discussed about dosages of concrete plasticizers in our...
View ArticleWater Cement Ratio in Relation to Aggregate Grading in Concrete Proportioning
Dear reader we have discussed many aspects of workability of concrete and factors that influence the water cement ratio. Now we will discuss about the factors that have maximum impact on water cement...
View ArticleBetter Serviceability with Prestressed Concrete
Dear reader we know that concrete below neutral axis doesn’t bear any significance in reinforced concrete. With concrete above neutral axis and steel below neutral axis make a resisting couple to...
View ArticleWhat is Precast Concrete Sheet Pile?
There are many types of sheet pile. Of which, we will discuss here about precast concrete sheet pile. Before discussing we have, at first, know: what is sheet pile? To construct continuous walls...
View ArticleAchieving Greater Safety with Prestressed Concrete (Part-1)
There have some structures about which we can’t mention that one types of structures are safer than others. But there have some factors based on that we can say that one sort of structures provide...
View ArticleAchieving Greater Safety with Prestressed Concrete (Part-2)
In the last post we have mentioned that constituent materials of prestressed concrete are testified initially when prestressing is provided. Now in this part we will discuss in light of other factors...
View ArticleInfluence of Cement in Air Entrainment in Concrete
Dear we have published many posts about air entraining agent. Here we will discuss about influence of cement types and other cementitious admixture on air content for a given dosage of air entraining...
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