ekram alam

• Oct 7th, 2011

Practical building construction and its management (sandeep mantry
)

sumidkhan

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• May 23rd, 2008

Book written by  T .B CUNNA.

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What is the procedure of design mix?

karthiga

• Oct 9th, 2011

In design mix, we should conduct all the tests of materials like specific gravity,bulk density, silt content,etc.,and then have to prepare cubes of size 150 x 150 x 150 mm. compressive strength will be calculated for 7 days & 28 days. from this we can know the strength.

rzaman68

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• Jan 25th, 2009

Design Mix of concrete is an important process to determine the?quantity of constituents of the concrete such as cement, aggregate, sand, water as per the grade of the concrete in order to achieve the conglomerate compound. Even the?phrase?itself advised that it is a design of a mix.??

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KARTHIGA

• Oct 9th, 2011

Shear wall is used to resist wind loads. This is often used in lifts

rzaman68

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• Jan 25th, 2009

Shear walls withstand the lateral and direct loads of a building such as live, dead and earthquake loads. It acts like columns of a building. The walls of staircases, elevators used to be shear walls in order to minimize the columns.

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how the Ready mix concrete is checked when received at site before using

DB Patra

• Oct 16th, 2011

Slump check to be done

karthiga

• Oct 14th, 2011

U didn't answer that how to check the mix of rmc. By slump test we can only able to check the workability.

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what is the minimum size of DMC piles?

nantha

• Oct 20th, 2011

DMC-Direct mud circulation Method

S N L Reddy

• Sep 20th, 2011

Minimum size of DMC piles is 50 cm

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What is the TRIMEX or TRIMAXE FLOORING?

ZAKIR

• Oct 20th, 2011

It is the process done by machinery first we put the concrete in level by Skid vibrator, Second ; remove the excess water from concrete and Third finish the surface by power disc trovel .

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Shanthi

• Nov 24th, 2011

Durability of concrete is determined by using compression testing machine

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What is the standard size of centering sheet, jack or props, acro span (in open and closed position)?

babu

• Jan 23rd, 2012

Centering sheet size=30x20
Props=3m&5m
Span=3m&5m

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How to differentiate the volumes of wet and dry sand / soil?

dan

• Feb 14th, 2012

The volumes will be the same (based on moleculer density of carbon structure).

fouad ellimoney

• Feb 6th, 2012

The volume of wet sand will be more than volume of dry sand but in the case of clay will be the same

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For economical purpose we are using open graded aggregate .... how it is economical.... and are there any problems in using this??

suji

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• Mar 7th, 2012

Open graded aggregate provides environmental benefits like ....
1.Noise reduction.
2.Durability for new construction or asphalt overlays.
3.Skid resistance.
and also Cost reduction compared to barriers.

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prakash

• Mar 14th, 2012

Mark on column from benchmark to known level , then minus the depth of beam thickness of suttering, to clear total height of slab

Rohit

• Feb 27th, 2012

Mark a level on a column from benchmark then find out the depth of beam @ column then minus the slab thickness from it then add a clear floor height minus the level u marked on the column

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How much opening area % (windows,doors) required for industrial building

humayun

• May 8th, 2012

15% to 20% opening area for residential buildings.

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What is the bearing capacity of soil?

dipankar_shome

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• May 29th, 2012

It is defined as the maximum load carrying capacity of soil per unit area without any shearing failure of the soil.

Dinesh Mandlik

• May 12th, 2012

Bearing capacity of Soil is the maximum load carrying capacity of soil per unit area without any shear to soil.

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azmath

• Jul 5th, 2012

The short face of the brick in known as header and the longer is stretcher

dhaval

• Jun 5th, 2012

The one brick header frog in cement mortar and second brick surface joint one brick and two brick

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BASSAM ABU ZUAITER

• Jul 9th, 2012

Cheaper, no transport, control over the type and amount of cement concrete, correct links in all around the concrete reinforcement for high strength,......etc

pavan patchigolla

• Nov 9th, 2011

Cast-in-situ piles are better to use because of many advantages like cheap because no transportation is involved and many other.

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A basketball post is to be constructed.height 10 ft and it has to offset 10 ft from the main post preffered to use round tube hollow steel tubes .can you give me some suggetions on shapes(how to cantilever the 10ft portion)member sizes etc it has to support weight of a player (100kg)

Shankar B

• Sep 22nd, 2012

Experts,
Whether the PCC is required for instrument support concrete block. the size of block is 550x350 sqmm.,
structural support will be minimum 10 kgs and junction box will minimum 2 kgs.
kindly advice.

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The size of concrete cube is 150mm x 150mm x 150mm as per Indian Standards. Why?

SHAHNAWAZ

• Sep 27th, 2012

The practical result of checking strength of concrete at 7 days & 28 days depends on the cube size 150x150x150, if we change the dimension, the checking days will change.

Arup

• Jul 11th, 2012

According to British Standard (BS) 1881:1983
100 mm cubes can take up to 20mm CA and 150mm cubes can accommodate up to 40mm CA!

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what is the min and max strength of M30(target strength is 38N/sq.mm)

Krishna Bahadur Kunwar

• Dec 7th, 2012

7 day strength will be 65% and 28 day strength will be 85-90%

shafi Uzzama

• Dec 31st, 2011

7 days strength will be 62% i.e. this should be more than 450 KN
& 28 days strength will be 100% i.e. it should be more than 700 KN

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Why standard consistency test of a cement is performed?

Chandra Shekhar

• Dec 19th, 2012

To know the cement-water ratio, used it other physical test ex. Setting time test, soundness test, compressive strength test etc.

rajakamal

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• May 16th, 2010

To find out the initial and final testing time of concrete!

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What is UAT? Can someone explain?

vijay

• Jan 1st, 2013

UAT means "User Acceptance Testing"

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