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Recycled Concrete: Uses, Advantages and Limitations
Concrete is a structural material comprising a hard, chemically inert particulate substance known as aggregate that is bonded together by cement and water. It is the most widely used construction...
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4 Types of Concrete Systems and Their Practical Applications
Concrete systems refer to the methods that can be used to prepare, transport, place and finish the concrete to where it is to be cast. These methods entail variety and the choice can vary from one...
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Concrete Flatwork; Types, Execution Steps and Advantages
When you step out of your house, you will always want a flat, paved area to walk or drive on and we all know, the natural ground is uneven and bumpy. This means that to pave an area, an intentional...
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Tilt-Wall Construction; Process Explained with Applications and Limitations
The advancements in our construction sector are taking place at an incessant speed. Remember a time when we only had a few raw materials for building purposes and now we have made a factory out of it....
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3D Printed Concrete House: A Complete Guide to Construction
To all the clients in que for a construction job done, did you ever a see printing machine in operation and wonder if it could print concrete for you instead of pages, so you wouldn’t have to wait for...
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Roof Concrete; Properties, Designs and Use in Construction
Concrete is a mixture of cement, sand, coarse aggregates and water and its usage as a construction material accounts for a vast majority of construction works carried out globally. From residential...
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Hollow Core Concrete Slab; Properties, Applications and Advantages
Hollow core concrete slabs are a type of precast concrete members available in markets as precast slabs that have a hollow, tube-like interior or core. The cross-section of a panel or slab of hollow...
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Types of Concrete Reinforcement; The Ultimate Guide
Concrete is an intrinsically strong construction material when it comes to bearing compressive loads and developing compressive stresses against them. However, when the same concrete member is...
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Concrete Anchors; Types, Uses and Placement
If you are a beginner in the field of civil engineering, at some point of time, you would have wondered that how do we secure or connect any object or member with the surface of concrete and is it even...
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Pre-tensioning and Post-tensioning; A Step Ahead to Producing Reinforced...
Concrete, as a heterogeneous material, is strong in compression but crumbles or cracks when the tensile stresses in it exceed 8 to 14 percent of its compressive strength. Therefore, when you use...
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