Design and Quality Control of Colored Clear Water Concrete Mix Proportion

With the continuous progress of society, people’s aesthetic of architecture is gradually improving.

The original texture of concrete has been loved by many designers at home and abroad, and as one of them, fair faced concrete is widely used in various buildings.

Ordinary plain concrete is mainly gray white in color, with a relatively single color.

In order to add wonderful colors and textures to the solemn and atmospheric foundation of concrete, designers have tried to inject pigments into concrete mixtures, and colored plain concrete has emerged.

Among them, colored clear water high-performance concrete refers to combining different colored pigments with clear water concrete to achieve the integration of the building as a whole with the surrounding environment.

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At the same time, adding a certain amount of steel fibers or synthetic fibers can make the concrete meet high-performance requirements.

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Who is the ‘invisible guardian’ of concrete quality

On the construction site, concrete is the most silent protagonist.

It pours out of the tanker like rushing magma, solidifies and becomes as hard as rock, supporting the bones of high-rise buildings and the backbone of bridges.

But in this transformation from slurry to stone, there are countless pairs of invisible hands – someone is weighing powder to two decimal places in the laboratory, someone is staring at the rotating tank next to the tanker, and someone is listening to the “buzzing” of the vibrating rod by the template.

If asked who can control the quality of concrete? The answer is hidden in every drop of sweat on the construction site, every bit of truth, like a symphony played by multiple people, without any part, it may be out of tune.

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Technology for breaking the pile head of concrete cast-in-place pile by ring cutting method

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development has issued clear regulations: for building construction projects with a foundation design grade of Class B or above, the direct chiseling method shall not be used for the pile head of the cast-in-place pile.

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It is recommended to use two alternative processes: “pre cutting method+mechanical chiseling” and “ring cutting method”.

The ring cutting method is currently the most widely used pile head breaking method due to its flexible operation and controllable quality.

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Is the concrete wall still rusting? 99% of people make mistakes!

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The protective layer of steel bars is relatively thin.

In a type of environment (indoor dry environment), which is a house that has been inhabited for 50 years, the floor and interior walls are 15mm, and the beams and columns are 20mm.

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Of course, the concrete strength here is taken as c30, and the strength is reduced by one level and the protective layer is increased by 5mm.

If the protective layer is thin, chloride ions in air or water can easily penetrate the thin protective layer and corrode the steel bars.

So, what factors can cause the protective layer to be thin?.

When to apply the rebound test block correction method to test the strength of concrete, and how to rebound the test block?

During on-site concrete strength testing, the rebound core correction method is more commonly used, while the rebound test block correction method is less commonly used.

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How to deal with the situation where the standard curing and test blocks under the same conditions are met for the construction project mentioned earlier, but the rebound strength is insufficient? As introduced, there are generally three tests for compressive strength of concrete during the construction process: standard curing test blocks during inspection batch acceptance, same condition curing test blocks during sub acceptance, and engineering quality supervision sampling during main structure acceptance (mainly using rebound method for testing, and a small amount of core drilling is used for “verification” of foundation raft and other materials that cannot use rebound method).

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Daily Science Popularization: Why is it that concrete pouring is most afraid of sudden rain?

One of the most frightening scenes when pouring concrete on a construction site is when the pump truck is still pouring materials, the sky suddenly darkens, the wind changes, and raindrops begin to fall on the freshly spread concrete surface.

Outsiders may think that concrete already needs to be filled with water, how big a deal could it be with a little rain? Anyway, it will be hard in a few days.

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Research on Optimization of Proportion of Large Flow Concrete

The main raw material for high flow concrete is cement, which is an inorganic, powdery material that, when mixed with aggregates and appropriate water, undergoes a series of physical and chemical reactions and gradually hardens into hard stone through flow dynamics.

The experiment uses P • O42.

5 ordinary Portland cement with a density of 3100kg/m3.

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The physical properties and mineral composition were determined through experiments and are shown in Tables 1 and 2.

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Discussion on the influencing factors of concrete impermeability performance

Once the impermeability performance is compromised, water and harmful chemicals from the external environment will enter the interior of the concrete, causing further corrosion of the concrete matrix and leading to steel corrosion, significantly reducing durability.

With the continuous accumulation and expansion of rust products, micro cracks and surface peeling will appear in the internal structure of concrete, causing structural damage and severe damage to the overall stability of the building system.

In chloride environments, the service life of concrete structures is generally 30-40 years, with the shortest being less than 10 years.

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Even worse, in environments with high salt concentrations, some concrete structures that have been in use for less than a year have to be repaired.

Therefore, in order to extend the service life of buildings, research on the impermeability performance of concrete cannot be ignored.

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