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Total No of Hrs: 60
Pre-requisite: Chemistry and Mathematics
Course Objective: To make students understand concrete ingredients their basic composition and
properties. Different types of cement, aggregates and admixtures.
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UNIT-4
MIXING, HANDLING, PLACING AND COMPACTING
CONCRETE: mixers charging the mixer uniformity of mixing
mixing time prolonged mixing read-mixed concrete handling
pumped concrete placing and compacting vibration of concrete
internal vibrators external vibrators vibrating tables revibration
shortcrete preplaced aggregate concrete
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UNIT-7 ADMIXTURES:
Accelerators set retarders water reducers (plasticizers)
superplaticizers mineral additives bonding admixture water
repellent admixtures. Concerting in extreme climates: hot weather
concreting cold weather concreting
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Reference:
1. Properties of Concrete by A.M.Neville Low priced Edition 4th edition
2. Concrete Technology by M.S.Shetty. S.Chand & Co.; 2004
3. Concrete Technology by M.L. Gambhir. Tata Mc. Graw Hill Publishers, New Delhi
4. Concrete Technology by A.R. Santha Kumar, Oxford university Press, New Delhi
5. Metha & Monteiro Concrete, Microstructure, Properties of Materials Tata
McGraw Hill.
Course outcome: After the completion of course students should be well aware of all types of concretes
their properties and ingredients and application.