Every material usage by the urban population affects nature and makes scarcity. For example, take petroleum. It takes quite a long time to get crude oil likely 50 million years. In just 50 years we are going to run out of it. So humanity is moving to another…
Now and then there will be a new boom of technology in every industry. Plastic Formwork is one of them in the construction industry like m sand replacing the river sand. What is Plastic Formwork? We are using traditional god materials such as timber & steel for formwork…
The Kelly ball test is an alternative field test for the traditional slump cone test which is performed to determine the consistency of fresh concrete. The Kelly Ball test is performed by US Standard (ASTM C360 – 92)and also called as the Kelly Ball Penetration Test. It is…
We shall pour concrete in particular structural element by hand mix or ready-mix concrete. The shotcrete concrete is not one of those types of concrete. Must Read: Properties of Concrete Shotcrete Technology By applying high-velocity pressure the concrete sprayed on a horizontal or vertical surface of structure through…
The low density of aggregates have used to produce lightweight concrete and also the lightweight concrete having the density of 800 Kg/cum to 1200 Kg/cum.
Termites are one of the insect’s types seems to size like ants. Termites have differed from ants because they eat wood. Basically, ants build their colonies under the earth’s surface near to the standing water around the foundation because they need moisture area.