The efficiency of the traditional concrete curing process on site is low, due to difficulties in providing continuous supervision and control environment, leading considerable variation regimes experienced by different pours. To enhance practice, technologies have been harnessed which eliminate human involvement enabling more rigorous environmental conditions affecting curing, but potential for...

This paper presented the findings of an experimental investigation into how common Portland cement concrete develops its compressive strength in a simple setting, such as Lahore, Pakistan. Ten cube specimens mix 1:1.5:3 was prepared with water-cement ratio 0.5 for each four curing techniques (air curing, water-submerged polythene by boiling) until testing ages 3, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days when thei...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the workability of fresh portland cement concrete while it is still in the mixing truck by determining fundamental rheological parameters (plastic viscosity and yield stress). Nine concrete mixtures with different values of yield stress and plastic viscosity were tested in a concrete truck. The measurements made with the truck were based on the ty...

Micro silica (MS) is an extremely fine, spherical powder that is used as an additive for improving concrete performance. It is obtained as a by product of silicon metal and ferrosilicon alloy production.  Due to its pozzolanic nature, micro silica can be used to enhance the qualities of both  fresh  and  hardened  concrete. Addition of micro silica into the concrete as a cement rep...