CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY

Assignment No.3

HIGH STRNGTH CONCRETE

Presented to:

Prof. MACHAKKA MM.

By: Walid Abou Hassan

20160141

20, Oct, 2016

Ex.1

1. The mix proportions as ratios to cement weight:

Fine Aggregate/ cement= 600/ 550 = 1.09

Coarse Aggregate/ Cement= 1085/ 550 = 1.97
Aggregate/ Cement ratio = 1.09 + 1.97 = 3.06
Water/ Cement ratio = 165/ 550 = 0.3

2. The unit weight of concrete:

Assume that the absorption of aggregates equal 1% then:

UW concrete (Kg/m3) = 2400/1.035= 2320

3. The concrete yield:

Yield: volume of concrete produced per batch, by dividing the total mass of the batch by
the density.
Yield= 1.035/11= 0.094 m3

4. Cement factor= 1/C.Y= 1/ 0.094=10.6

5. Wc= 550*500/1.035=266t
Ww=165*500/1.035=97.7t
Wfa=1.69*500/1.035=289.8t
Wca=1.59*500/1.035=524.2t

Ex.2
1. Concrete mix proportion:
c/3.15+0.3c/1 + 0.32*0.27c/2550 +0.68*2.7 c/2510 + 0.02=1
c=563Kg
Ww=169 Kg
Wfa= 486 Kg
Wca= 1034 Kg
2. U.W= 563+486+1034+169=2252Kg/m3

Ex.3

Fig 1, Silica fume slurry consists of approximately 50 percent silica fume and 50 percent
water, by mass. When first introduced to the market, slurried silica-fume products often
contained water reducers or high-range water reducers. Today, slurry is available without
any such additions.
Fig 2: Tensile splitting strength, for high strength concrete, the indirect tensile strength
may be about 5 percent of the compressive strength. At low strengths, the indirect tensile
strength may be as high as 10 percent of the compressive strength. Tensile splitting
strength .The tensile splitting strength was about 8 percent higher for crushed-rock-
aggregate concrete than for gravel-aggregate concrete. The indirect tensile strength was
about 70 percent of the flexural strength at 28 days.

Fig 4, cylinder looks like explosion when crashed, high compressive strength.

Fig3and 5: Cement Hydration and chemical admixture, all type of HRWR, Super
plasticizers or Poly-Carboxylates can be used. Air-entraining admixtures are not
necessary or desirable in protected high-strength concrete as it decreases the value of the
required compressive strength.

Fig 6: Supplementary Cementing Materials (Fly ash (Class C ) - Metakaolin (calcined

clay) - Silica fume - Fly ash (Class F) – Slag - Calcined shale (from left)). Finely divided
mineral admixtures, consisting mainly of fly ash, silica fume and slag cement have been
widely used in high-strength concrete. Dosage rate varies from 5% to 30% or higher by
mass of cementing material depending on the type of mineral used.