DESIGN OF NORMAL CONCRETE MIXTURES (NON AIR - ENTRAINED)

BRITISH DOE METHOD (BASD ON BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISMENT.TRANSPORT & ROAD RESEARCH LABORATORY AND BRITISH
CEMENT ASSOCIATION PUBLISH BY DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT-KINGDOM)

Rehabilitation & Upgrading A-006 Contract No.:RDA/DW/CP/GOSL/2011/170

Engineer : RDA Contactor : ICC

Mix Design Reference Date

Stage Item Reference or Calculation Values

1 15 @ 28 days

1.1 Characteristic Strength Specified Proportion defective 5 %

1.2 standard deviation Fig.3 (DOE design manual) N/mm2 or no data N/mm2
(No prev data)
1.3 Margin C1 or Specified (K= 1.65 ) 1.65 * 5 = 8 N/mm2

1.4 Target mean strength C2 15 + 8 = 23 N/mm2

1.5 Cement type Specified OPC / SRPC / RHPC

1.6 Aggregate type : Course Crushed/ Uncrushed

Aggregate type : Fine Crushed/ Uncrushed

1.7 Free-water/cement ratio Table 2.Fig 4(DOE design manual) Use the lower value =

1.8 Max free-water/cement ratio Specified

2 2.1 Slump or Vebe time Specified Slump 50 -180 mm or Vebe time= NA s

2.2 Max aggregate size Specified = mm

2.3 Free-water = kg/m3

3 3.1 Cement content C3 ÷ = kg/m3

3.2 Maximum cement content Specified kg/m3

3.3 Minimum cement content Specified kg/m3

use 3.1 if ≤ 3.2

use 3.2 if > 3.1 kg/m3

3.4 Modified free - water cement ratio NA

4 4.1 Relative density of aggregate(SSD) known / assumed

4.2 Concrete density Fig.4 (DOE design manual) kg/m3

4.3 Total aggregate content C4 - - = kg/m3

5 5.1 Grading of the fine aggregate percentage passing 600μm sieve %

5.2 Proportion of the fine aggregate Fig.6(DOE design manual) 40 to 50 say, % = %

5.3 Fine aggregate cement * = = kg/m3

C5
5.4 Course aggregate content - = = kg/m3

QUANTITIES CEMENT WATER FINE COURSE AGGREGATE Pozzolith Rebuild

AGGREG
ATE 10mm 20mm 40mm 300R 1000
(kg) (kg or L) (kg) (kg) (ml)
per m3 (to nearest 5 kg)

per 50kg bag of cement

per trail mix of .05 m3

Designation (Contractor) Material Engineer(Counsultat)

ICC - LAB -TF - 35