Compressive strength: – Compressive strength of cement is the ability of the cement to withstand the compressive load. It helps to find out how much compressive load cement can take before failure. This is the most important property as cement is expected to withstand the desired compressive load. Significance: – The compressive strength of concrete…
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Tensile Strength of concrete:- It is the ability of concrete to resist tensile strength applied on it. Concrete is good performer in terms of compression, but significantly weak in tension force. This is the reason reinforcement is provide to balance weakness of concrete in tensile strength. Split cylinder test can be used to find out…
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Soundness of Cement Soundness of cement can be defined as its ability to retain its volume after hardening. If cement change its volume at the time of setting or hardening then its not sound. This means sound cement doesn’t go or undergoes minimum volume change after hardening. Lime content in cement plays significance role in…
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