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Properties of Hardened Concrete

04/02/2019 By Liton Biswas 2 Comments

Properties of Hardened Concrete

Fully cured, hardened concrete must be strong enough to withstand the structural and service loads which will be applied to it and must be durable enough to withstand the environmental exposure for which it is designed. If concrete is made with high-quality materials and is properly proportioned, mixed, handled, placed and finished, it will be […]

Filed Under: Building Materials, Concrete Technology Tagged With: Quality Management

Plain Cement Concrete – How to Produce and Construct

25/01/2019 By Liton Biswas 11 Comments

Plain Cement Concrete: How to produce and construct

Plain cement concrete is used to provide a rigid impervious bed to RCC in the foundation where the earth is soft and yielding. It can be used over brick flat soling or without brick flat soling. The short name of plain cement concrete is PCC. It is also defined as Cement Concrete (CC) or Blinding […]

Filed Under: Building Materials, Concrete Technology Tagged With: Construction Tutorial

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 13 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 20 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

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