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What can be the best cementitious material for producing acoustic and thermal insulation?
04 April 2017 2,807 3 View
steel concrete composite building is more ductile than RCC building. under what basis it have more ductile nature.
03 March 2017 5,401 6 View
Dear friends, I want to know that how is the resonant frequency of a particular construction material depends on the type of material used(young's modulus)? Does this play any significant role in...
03 March 2017 3,726 4 View
Do you have experience about use a Polymer concrete on the concrete structures at the wastewater treatment plant for increase durability and decrease corrosion?
31 January 2017 419 4 View
I am looking for a list of amounts of embodied energy in different strength classes of concrete (e.g. c30/37, c40/50, c60/75, etc.). I could find some data about embodied carbon but nothing about...
19 January 2017 5,130 1 View
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i am using rice husk ash as cement in concrete,now i am using 20% of rice husk ash in concrete, whether i can use 100% of rice husk ash in concrete ?
11 November 2016 7,202 21 View
size of the chamber- 6 feet x 4 feet X 4 feet
10 October 2016 9,501 0 View
most of the codes and service life literature provide model for chloride based degradation however i couldn't find any model for sulphate based degradation especially sulphuric acid degradation in...
22 September 2016 4,982 6 View
How weather conditions (air temperature, humidity, solar radiation, precipitation, etc) affect the construction materials (concrete, steel, wood)?
09 September 2016 7,816 7 View
Adding polymers and steel fibers to concrete mix can slightly increase the tensile strength of concrete to a certain level, though it can not reach that much anticipated value close to >50% of...
08 August 2016 5,525 8 View
Is it significant for waste materials to be used in self healing asphalt concrete that lead to green and sustainable asphalt? which material that can be significant one for producing self healing...
07 July 2016 8,603 9 View
Part of my research involves analyzing environmental impacts of construction materials including C&D waste in Himalayan region cities (say Thimphu, Darjeeling etc). So far, I am unable to...
29 June 2016 1,359 4 View
if I have the elongation for each cables, its correct that the average of the elongations will be considered as girder elongation value, then I can calculate the fps for the girder. I know that...
19 June 2016 10,003 4 View
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Is it feasible to use high speed shear mixer (10000 rpm) for mixing modifiers with Bitumen? How long will be the mixing process with this much speed?
25 May 2016 1,831 4 View
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Our group design fiber rolls rack. Safety that must be taken to when handle the fiber rolls?
05 May 2016 1,371 2 View
In unbonded post tension concrete flat plate slab - Multi story building, in case MEP installation were a drill used in concrete slab make a penetration in bottom more than 3/4" (the min concrete...
05 May 2016 5,203 6 View
I'm interested in practical experiences with the use any other alternative binders except cement.
04 April 2016 9,087 16 View
Hi People. In relation with screw manufactured with planar flat die thread rolling, what do you think? Is better to use dies with coating like TiN or uncoated dies? Why one of this solutions are...
04 April 2016 2,043 4 View
is my thesis topic for master.
04 April 2016 2,124 11 View
Read 4 answers by scientists to the question asked by Hasan Jalilifar on Apr 2, 2016
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