Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRP):Introduction-Properties Concrete structures regardless of their purpose are disintegrating. A common link for this breakdown is that steel reinforcement is being used to strengthen the flexural capacity of the structures. Reinforcing steel
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Foamed Concrete
What are Supplementary Cementing Materials (SCMs)
Non-Destructive Testing of Concrete (NDT)
Cement Setting and False Set
Cement Setting Setting of Cement, or cement setting, is a term used to describe the stiffening of the cement paste. Setting refers to a change from a fluid to a rigid stage. Although, during setting, the
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Green Cements
Portland Cement Hydration
In a previous post about cement and its components, we mentioned that there are four compounds of cement. They are: Silicates Alite, C3S Belite, C2S Aluminates Tricalcium aluminate, C3A Calcium alumino ferrite, C4AF Portland Cement Hydration
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