Glass for Lightweight Aggregate Concrete

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Under ‘ concrete ’ keyword we are now discussing about application, suitability and durability of glass as both fine aggregate, coarse agg...

Crushed Glass in Concrete: What is the Effect on Concrete Workability?

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Dear reader we have already had few idea about application of glass in concrete production. In the last post, we have discussed about cont...

Common Contaminants in Glass Powder as Concrete Constituents

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We have already learnt about glass powder that can be used in concrete as fine aggregate, coarse aggregate or as replacement of binding ...

Sustainable Concrete: Replacing Aggregate with Waste Glass

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The word ‘sustain’ means to maintain a process or system going and sustainability has objective to sustain the life of our planet for fore...

How to Determine the Clay Minerals in Concrete Aggregates

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Procedure for determining clay minerals in concrete is almost same as that of  methylene blue capacity  for determining quality of benton...

Glacial Action and Deposition of Loess Soil

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The reader we have discussed few topics about loess soil in our previous posts; here you will learn early deposition of loess after Ice A...

Stability of Slope and Cut in Loess Soil

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Dear reader we have discussed about properties, sampling and evaluation of collapse potential of loess soil in our previous posts. We hav...

How does Density of Loess Soil Indicates Collapse Potential?

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Dear reader in previous post we have discussed about a method for determining collapse potential of loess soil . Here we will learn about ...

Sampling Difficulties of Collapsible Soil: Loess

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Dear reader we have discussed about many aspects of loess so far in this blog; now we will discuss about sampling difficulties of loess so...

What is Time Dependent Corrosion in Foundation Elements?

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We know steel, concrete and timber are common foundation material. In many cases these materials are subjected to environmental adverse c...

Index Properties of Loess Soil

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Dear reader we have already learnt about grain size and shape of loess soil . Loess is a collapsible soil . Most of collapsible soils incl...

Loess: An Aeolian Soil Deposit

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Dear reader in our last post we have discussed about dune sand as an Aeolian deposit. Here we will discuss about another wind transported ...

Typical Properties of Dune: An Aeolian Soil Deposit

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We have discussed wind transported soil in our previous post. We know that sand blown by wind takes shape like dune. When a dune is forme...

Significance of Activity of Soil

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In United States, large parts of Africa and India there have severe problems associated with expansive potential of clay soil. The three c...

Comparison of Soil with Steel

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Soil is very complex in nature and shows distinct behavior other than traditional construction materials. We have discussed about concrete...