Mix Design

Section (6)
Data:
Ingredients of Concrete Mixture:
Water (kg/m3)

Cement (kg/m3)

Coarse aggregate (kg/m3)

10

Fine aggregate (kg/m3)

11

Concrete Fresh Properties:

Slump Test:
Slump (before adding super
plasticizer)
Slump (after adding super
plasticizer)
Compacting Factor Test:
Weight of empty cylinder (kg)

10
19.5

6.0

Weight of cylinder+partially
compacting concrete (kg)

17.08

Weight of cylinder+fully
compacting concrete (kg)

17.18

Compaction factor (CF)

%

Unit Weight:
Weight of empty cylinder (kg)

6.0

Weight of cylinder+water (kg)

10.86

Weight of cylinder+fully
compacting concrete (kg)

17.18

Unit weight (kg/m3)

- Concrete Harden Properties:

Sampl
e No.

Load (kN)
Compression
Test
Cylinders
394.6

Load (kN)
Flexural Test

Load (kN)
Splitting Test

Load (kN)
Compression
Test
Cubes
587

17.5

143.9

566

385.55

16.98

122.5

613

352.2

18.06

100.1

Sampl
e No.

Compression
strength (MPa)
Cubes

Compression
strength (MPa)
Cylinder

Flexural
strength
(MPa)

Splitting
strength
(MPa)

1
2
3

- Stress-Strain Diagram
Load (kN)

Displacement
(mm)

21.84

0.0193

44.88

0.0296

69.16

0.0335

92.26

0.0394

104.34

0.0406

120.97

0.0445

141.83

0.0474

160.77

0.0516

188.16

0.0576

210.21

0.0621

218.65

0.0637

232.98

0.0655

246.57

0.0708

258.12

0.0724

280.30

0.0783

303.13

0.0856

327.03

0.0932

336.00

0.0989

Draw stress-strain diagram

Stress (MPa)

Strain

Compression Test

Splitting Test

P
C
2P
A
sp
P : From the machine.
LD
P : From the machine.
For cubes A 150 150
L 200mm.

2
For cylinders A 100
D 100
4

Flexural Test

Flexural test

MC
f
I
PL
M
4
P : From the machine.
L 200mm.
C 50mm
bh 3
I
12
b 100mm
h 100mm