This course provides knowledge about the production, types, properties and uses of cementitious materials and aggregate. Fresh concrete properties, concrete operations, concrete testing, and destructive and non-destructive testing of existing concrete structures. Durability Aspects of Concrete. Design of concrete mixes. Production and properties of masonry units including building stones, concrete blocks and calcium-silicate and clay bricks.
1. Cement.
2. Aggregate
3. Mixing Water
4. Fresh Concrete Properties
5. Concrete Operations: Mixing, Handling, Compacting, Curing.
6. Concrete Mix Design
7. Hardened Concrete Properties
8. Durability Aspects of Concrete: Sulphate attack; Alkali-silica reaction; Freezing and Thawing; Steel Corrosion.
9. Masonry Building Units and concrete blocks.
