Compressive Strength of Cement is the capacity of taking compressive loads of cement. It is determined by compressive strength test on morta...

Consistency is defined as the amount of water that can be added to cement to produce a plastic paste of cement and the ingredients of of c...

Water Content of soil is the quantity of soil contained in a sample of soil. Generally this is expressed in ratio. Here : s-soil (dry),...

    With Respect to concrete aggregates,toughness is usually considered the resistance of the material to failure by impact.Several attempts...

      It is very important that the cement after setting shall not undergo any appreciable change of volume. Certain cements have been found...

AIM To determine the bitumen content as per ASTM 2172. APPARATUS i) Centrifuge extractor ii) Miscellaneous - bowl, fi...

Testing of Cement can be brought under two categories.       (a) Field Testing        (b) Laboratory Testing Field Testing     ...

Initial and Final Setting Time are two very important properties of  cement which are required  in estimating free time for transporting, pl...

      Water Absorption is the percent of water necessary to add to the aggregate to obtain saturated surface dry (SSD) condition. This te...

    The flow trough test (Bartos, Sonebi, and Tamimi 2002) is used to measure the workability of highly flowable concretes. It was origina...

      The flow table test (Tattersall 1991; Bartos 1992; Wong et al. 2000; Bartos, Sonebi, and Tamimi 2002) measures the horizontal spread...

       Like L-box test , U-box test measures the filling ability of self-compacting concrete. The U-box test originally developed in Japan a...

      The L-box test is used to  measure the filling and passing ability of self-compacting concrete .This test was originally developed in ...

     The direct shear test used for soil (Powers 1968) can be performed with fresh concrete to assess the cohesive strength of a concrete ...

      The Powers remolding test (Powers 1968; Scanlon 1994; Wong et al. 2000) is similar to the Vebe consistometer . The test was develop by...

       The delivery-chute torque meter (US patent 4,332,158; Wong et al. 2000) is designed to measure the consistency of concrete as it exit...

       The J-ring test (EFNARC 2002; Bartos, Sonebi, and Tamimi 2002) extends common filling ability test methods to also characterize pas...

       The Angles flow box test (Scanlon 1994; Wong et al. 2000) attempts to simulate typical concrete construction in order to characterize...

      The CEMAGREF-IMG (Ferraris and Brower 2001) is a large coaxial-cylinders rheometer originally developed to measure mud-flow rheology, ...

      Originally developed in the 1960s, the vibrating slope apparatus (Wong et al. 2000) was recently modified by the US Army Engineering R...