INTRODUCTION: Fly Ash is a fine siliceous (glass-like) powder recovered from the burning of pulverized coal (bituminous or sub-bituminous) in electric generation power plants. The collected fly ash...
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1. Eco-Friendly and Sustainable The main ingredient of AAC blocks is industrial waste material fly ash (60% of its weight), which takes care of the issues concerned with...
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What is AAC Blocks? Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) material is an eco-friendly and certified green building material that is lightweight, load-bearing, high-insulating, durable building blocks, and 3 times...
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Curing is a term which means to control the temperature and moisture in concrete for certain period after placing of concrete so as to cement gains strength and...
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Nominal Mix Concrete In this content we learn how to prepare 1 cubic meter of concrete. As we know that concrete is in wet condition during concreting when...
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A. Concrete Mix Design Stipulation Grade designation: — M30Type of cement: — OPC 43 gradeMaximum nominal size of aggregate: — 20mmMinimum cement content: — 320 Kg ……….…. (From...
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Concrete Mix Concrete mix design is the calculation of proportion of contents (Like cement, aggregates, water and sometimes admixture also) to achieve desired degree of workability of fresh...
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Water cement ratio is the ratio of the amount of weight of water to the amount of cementitious materials (fly ash, ground granulated, blast-furnace slag, silica fume, rice...
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M.S. SHETTY S. CHAND & COMPANY LTD. The book first published in 1982, has seen more than 25 reprints. The popularity of this book amongst students and practicing...
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What is Workability of Concrete? Workability of cement is defined as ease or difficulty to work with concrete is handled, transported and placed between the forms with minimum...
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