Concrete is the backbone of modern world. It is of utmost importance for any civil engineer to have a good understanding of the properties of concrete and its design methods.
To understand development length, you must visit the article “What is development length.” If you have already gone through the article, you must know that development length is the grip
The community, society, and industry need water for different uses. Wate demand is the accurate estimation of total water. The unit of Water demand is LPCD ( liters per person
You might have seen old buildings generally have beams and columns of big cross-sections. Do you wonder why that is so? Are they expected to bear high loads? Well answer
Both the reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete structures employ two materials, that is, concrete and steel. Besides these two materials, there is nothing common between them and their structural behavior
There are plenty of options which we can use as a construction material available in the industry. An efficient engineer should select the material as per the project requirement, such
Creep of concrete is a kind of deformation which occurs because of sustained loading. It is important to study the creep, because it can have a significant impact on the
Lean concrete is a type of concrete in which the amount of cement is less , i.e less than 10 % of the total volume of concrete. In this type
Cement is a binder material, and an important ingredient in concrete. In concrete cement along with water adheres to other materials and helps to hold them together. Cement used in
Design the concrete to get the optimum quantity of each ingredients for concrete. In the previous blog I have already discussed about the complete designing procedure of concrete as per
Concrete is a man made material. In the most simplest form it is the mixture of coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, water and cement. It is very much possible for us