SLUMP TEST (IS:1199)

Ref : IS:1199

Purpose : : To find out the workability of fresh concrete.

Salient features of apparatus :

(a) Mould : Top diameter : 100 mm

Bottom diameter : 200 mm
Height : 300 mm
Thickness : 1.6 mm

(b) Tamping rod : Diameter : 16 mm

Length : 600 mm
Shape : rounded at
one end
Procedure :

(a) Fill the mould in four layers.

(b) Tamp each layer 25 times with the rounded end of the tamping
rod.

(c) The tamping should be uniformly distributed and for the

second and subsequently layers, tamping rod shall penetrate
in to the under lying layers.

(d) Strike of the top level of concrete by trowel and tamping rod.

(e) Remove the mould in vertical direction.

(f) Measure the difference in level between the height of mould

and that of the highest point of the subside concrete.

(g) This difference in height in mm is recorded as the slump of

concrete.