Bearing Capacity of soil from SPT Value
Bearing Capacity of Soil: Bearing Capacity is the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground. Here we will discuss how to determine bearing capacity of soil from SPT value.
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Bearing Capacity of Soil: Bearing Capacity is the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground. Here we will discuss how to determine bearing capacity of soil from SPT value.
Curing: Curing of concrete is a process by which fresh wet concrete is allowed to complete its reaction to attained its desire strength. By this method concrete is protected against loss of moisture required for hydration and kept within the recommended temperature range.
Necessity of Curing of Concrete slab:
1) To enhance hydration of concrete to achieve desire strength.
2) Well cured concrete has minimum thermal, plastic and drying shrinkage crack which make concrete more water, tight results durable concrete.
3) In-adequate curing results weak and dusty surface of concrete, results a poor abrasion resistance.
Foundations are basically of two (02) types:
Lapping: In RCC structure, placing of a single bar may not meet the required length of the section. So it becomes necessary to join two bars, to meet the desire length. To join two bars, one bar should overlap another and it is called lapping of bar and the length overlap each other is caller lap length or overlap length.
Description | Clear Cover, inch |
Concrete cast against and permanently exposed to earth | 3 |
Concrete exposed to earth or weather: No. 06 through No.18 bar No.05 bar and wire | 2 1.5 |
Concrete not exposed to weather or in contact with ground: Slabs, walls, joists: No.14 and No.18 bars No. 11 bars and smaller | 1.5 0.75 |
Beams, Column | 1.5 |
Shells, folded plate members No.6 bars and larger No.05 bars and smaller | 0.75 0.50 |
Degree of Workability | Slump | Suitable to Use |
Very Low | 0-25 | Used in Road work |
Low | 25-50 | Used in Foundation with light reinforcement road vibrate by hand operated machine |
Medium | 50-100 | Used in normal reinforced concrete manually compacted and heavily reinforced section with vibrations. |
High | 100-175 | Used in section with congested reinforcement. Not normally suitable for compaction. |
1.Slump test is very easy and simple. Even non-technical person can perform it in construction site without any problem.
2.This test does not require any special or costly equipment and not to send the sample at laboratory. It can be done in the construction area.
3.It is very essential to check batch to batch or hour to hour variation in the materials which will be fed into the mixer. Too high or too low slump is an indicator of unwanted workability of concrete and mixer operator gets an alarm to find a solution to remedy the problem.
4.Slump test does not demand a long-time period to get the result. We can obtain slump value within some minutes.
1.It is unreliable for lean mixes. In a lean mix, a true slump may convert into shear or collapse easily. Widely variation can be found from one sample of lean mix and it can be a great confusion to determine the exact result.
2.It cannot differentiate in workability of stiff mixes as it shows zero slumps. In dry range, no difference can be detected between different mixes with different workability.
3.It is not exact measurement because slump bears no unique relation to workability. Even, for different types of aggregates, the same slump can be recorded for different workability.
4.For a specimen, more than one shape can be resulted confusing the correct result. If shear slump occurs, it may attain true slump in next test.
5.It is not suitable for concrete formed of aggregate higher than 40 mm.
Lapping in Reinforcement L apping in Reinforcement: Lapping length of reinforcement is one of the important term in RCC. It is a very confu...