CONCRETE a composite material which consists of materials like cement, sand, aggregate, water and admixtures. ADVANTAGES : - ...

   Cement concrete flooring is one of the most common types of flooring used in both in residential as well as public buildings. • ...

Construction of any roof slab comprises of these following steps.. 1. Staging:- After completion of Columns upto Roof Beam Bottom Constructi...

A retaining wall is a structure designed and constructed to resist the lateral pressure of soil, when there is a desired change in ground...

Pavement Quality Concrete is a concrete which is used now a days for most type of Road Contraction works. Generally it is designed in High...

Creep of concrete is the  continued deformation with time under applied load. Sometimes it is defined as increase in strain in concrete with...

Originated from a Greek word “rheo” which means “flow” and “logia” which means “study” Rheology is the study of flow of matter in liquid, s...

Cement is one of the most important base products of construction industry and Ordinary Portland cement or OPC is by far the most important ...

Mortar is a material used in masonry construction to fill the gaps between the bricks and blocks used in construction. Mortar is a mixture...

Recently a new term has come in the field of concrete technology “High Performance Concrete” or HPC. The properties of HPC are Hig...

Pumpable concrete is that type of  concrete which can be pushed through a pipeline for construction. It is made in such a manner that its fr...

Earlier it was thought that the use of larger size aggregate leads to higher strength.This was due to the fact that the larger the aggrega...

       As propounded by Duff Abrams many research workers commented on the validity of water/cement ratio law. They have focused on a few of...

Segregation is the separation of the different materials of concrete. A good concrete is one which is homogeneous in nature.If a sample of c...