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Concrete Cover for Reinforcement Bar

25/04/2017 By Liton Biswas Leave a Comment

Updated August 29th, 2017 What is Concrete Cover for Reinforcement Bar? The distance between the surface of embedded reinforcement and the outer face of concrete of a RCC member is the concrete cover. We often define it as “concrete clear cover” or “minimum concrete cover” in our daily construction activities. See the image below. Why […]

Filed Under: Concrete Technology, Reinforced Cement Concrete Tagged With: Reinforcement

5 Reasons to Choose Readymix Concrete over On-site Machine-Mix Concrete

02/04/2017 By Liton Biswas 3 Comments

Updated August 27th, 2017 Readymix concrete, RMC as it is commonly called, refers to concrete that is specially manufactured in a plant for deliver to construction site in a hardened state. Another form of concrete we use to cast our concrete members, that is on-site machine-mix concrete. There are many reasons to prefer Readymix concrete […]

Filed Under: Concrete Technology

5 Things to Consider Choosing a Ready Mix Concrete Supplier

28/03/2017 By Liton Biswas 11 Comments

You decided to cast your RCC members with “ready-made” concrete. Ready-made concrete is always called “ready mix” concrete. There are many reasons to choose ready mix concrete over machine mix concrete. That is another topic. When you choose ready mix concrete as your option, the frist step is to select a supplier who will meet […]

Filed Under: Concrete Technology, Construction

How to Make Concrete Cube for Compression Test?

27/08/2013 By Liton Biswas 12 Comments

Updated August 29th, 2017Concrete’s compressive-strength mostly depends on the mix design. But it is affected by several other factors. Such as mixing of concrete, placing of concrete, curing of concrete as well as quality of concrete ingredients. So we can’t be assured that if we produce concrete as per mix-design we will get desired compressive […]

Filed Under: Concrete Technology, Construction Tagged With: Quality Test

Cold Weather Concreting – Affects and Precautions

05/08/2013 By Liton Biswas 1 Comment

What is cold weather for concreting? How it can damage concrete quality? How to protect concrete during cold weather? This article will answer the above questions. It’s better to avoid concreting in cold weather. But, for our tight project schedule, it’s often not possible to avoid cold weather concreting. On large commercial projects we can […]

Filed Under: Concrete Technology, Construction

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