Achieving Excellent Finishing of Concrete with Permeable Formwork

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Dear reader in our last post we have discussed about durability of concrete poured in permeable formwork . A concrete member which has vi...

How is Durability of Concrete Increased with Permeable Formwork?

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Permeable formwork has special advantage of least susceptible to unfriendly exposure around concrete surface . It is noticed that with the...

What is Permeable Formwork for Concrete?

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This is a special development of concrete formwork where filter, draining and structural supports are provided with this system. This typ...

What are the Parameters for Defining Design Foundation Settlement

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Foundation of a building transfers load of the structure to the safe stratum. But always hard stratum is not available to support or econo...

Comparison between Permeability of Aggregate and Cement Paste of Concrete

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Do you know, what are the usual porosity of cement paste and natural aggregate? The usual capillary porosity of hardened cement paste in c...

Factors Leading Slope of Soil Mass to Fail

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Various modern methods for testing soils are developed in recent years and as well stability analysis techniques improved. Various dynami...

What is the Slope Stability of Soil Mass?

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A slope means soil surface that is inclined and unsupported. In many engineering purposes we need to form earth slopes having adequate saf...

What is Halite? How is Foundation Settlement Associated with This?

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Dear reader in our last post we have discussed about soluble soil where halite, a rock salt, was discussed in relation to soluble particl...

How are Strength and Permeability of Concrete Interrelated?

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Now-a-days durability of concrete is major concern in mix design and proportioning and permeability of concrete is a way to penetrate ch...

Does Inclusion of Aggregate in Concrete Increase Permeability?

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At first we will learn about theoretical effect of aggregate inclusion. Aggregate may be of highly permeable or of low permeable; let’s co...

What is Soluble Soil? How does Foundation Settlement Occur in Soluble Soil?

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Soluble soils have particles that are soluble in water. These types of soils are found in many region of the world but they commonly foun...

What are the Features for Engineering Classification of Soil?

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Requirements for effective and ideal system for soil classification are as follows: a. A scientific approach is developed for this sy...