Concrete Technology

Week 1  :  Introduction concrete as a material, ingredients, Production, composition, and properties; cement chemistry..
Week 2  :   Types of cements; special cements, aggregates :properties, tests and standard
Week 3  :  Water reducers, air entrainers, set controllers, specialty admixtures – structure properties, and effects on concrete properties; Introduction to supplementary cementing materials and pozzolans.
Week 4  :  Fly ash, blast furnace slag, silica fume, and metakaolin – their production, properties, and effects on concrete properties; other reactive and inert mineral additives.
Week 5  :  Basic principles; IS method; ACI method; new approaches based on rheology and particle packing.
Week 6  :  Batching of ingredients; mixing, transport, and placement; consolidation, finishing, and curing of concrete; initial and final set – significance and measurement; workability of concrete and its measurement
Week 7  :  Compressive strength and parameters affecting it; Tensile strength – direct and indirect; Modulus of elasticity and Poisson’s ratio; Stress strain response of concrete.
Week 8  :  Modulus of elasticity and Poisson’s ratio; Stress strain response of concrete. Creep and relaxation – parameters affecting; Shrinkage of concrete – types and significance; parameters affecting shrinkage; measurement of creep and shrinkage
Week 9  :  Introduction to durability; relation between durability and permeability;
Week 10  :  Chemical attack of concrete corrosion of steel rebars; other durability issues
Week 11  :  Properties and applications of: High strength – high performance concrete, reactive powder concrete; Lightweight, heavyweight, and mass concrete;
Week 12  :  Self-compacting concrete, fibre reinforced concrete; self-compacting concrete; other special concretes.

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