Foundation, Concrete and Earthquake Engineering

We know that shear strength is the key issue that determines stability of slope.  Slope of soil mass should be such that soil mass is safe...

Dear reader we were discussing about no-fines concrete in previous posts; many aspects we have discussed but do we know feasibility of t...

In simple word thermal conductivity is a measure of ability of a material (here concrete) to conduct flux of heat through concrete . The u...

Thermal properties of any type of concrete like thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and thermal expansion are considered in concret...

Dear reader volume change in concrete is an important parameter and carefully studied in concrete engineering. Volume change may be swell...

Dear reader, for any type of concrete, strength is a very important parameter which is related to other parameter too. Say a strong concre...

Dear reader we know water-cement ratio is the controlling factor for strength of concrete . Here, in no-fines concrete , water-cement rati...

Dear reader we have already learnt that the density of no-fines concrete varies with grading of aggregate. The grading requirement, size ...

Dear reader we have discussed in previous post about compaction of no-fines concrete . Now we know much compaction effort is not required ...

Dear reader here we will learn about compaction of no-fines concrete . We have discussed about workability requirements of no-fines concre...

We have all concerned about shrinkage crack in concrete ; why do shrinkage cracks occur and how do they do harm to concrete ?-We have less...

Dear reader we were discussing about no fines concrete throughout last two posts and including this post, several posts will be publishe...

Dear reader in our previous posts we have learnt that no fines concrete has large voids and low density. Here we will learn about aggrega...

The location of different weathering regions are shown in the figure below: The aggregates are designated as below: a. 1S b. 2S ...

A region can be said to be under negligible weathering, where concrete hardly exposed to detrimental effect of freezing under presence of ...

ASTM C33 provides maximum permissible limit for deleterious substances of coarse aggregates of concrete . This classifies coarse aggrega...