| Maximum Size Aggregate | (Concrete Engineering) Aggregate whose largest particle size is present in sufficient quantity to affect the physical properties of concrete; generally designated by the sieve size on which the maximum amount permitted to be retained is 5 or 10 percent by weight. |
| Mixing Speed | (Concrete Engineering) Rate of mixer drum rotation or that of the paddles in a pan, open-top, or trough type mixer, when mixing a batch; expressed in revolutions per minute (rpm) or in peripheral] feet per minute of A point on the circumference at maximum diameter. |
| Moist Room | (Concrete Engineering) A room used for storing and curing cementitious test specimens. The atmosphere of this room is maintained at a temperature of 73.4 3.0'F or 23.0*1.7'0 and relative humidity of at least 98 percent. These facilities must be adequate to continually maintain free moisture on the exteriors of test specimens. |
| Neat Cement-Paste | (Concrete Engineering) A mixture of water and hydraulic cement, both before and after setting and hardening. |
| Non-evaporable Water | (Concrete Engineering) The water in concrete which is irremovable by oven drying; chemically combined during cement hydration. |
| Ottawa Sand | (Concrete Engineering) A sand used as a standard in testing hydraulic cements by means of mortar test specimens. Sand is produced by processing silica rock particles obtained by hydraulic mining of the orthoquartzite situated in open-pit deposits near Ottawa, Illinois; naturally rounded grains of nearly pure quartz. |
| Overvibration | (Concrete Engineering) Excessive vibration of freshly mixed concrete during placement-causing segregation. |
| Particle-Size Distribution | (Concrete Engineering) Particle distribution of granular materials among various sizes; for concrete material normally designated as gradation. Usually expressed in terms of cumulative percentages smaller or larger than each of a series of sieve openings or percentages between certain ranges of sieve openings. |
| Peeling | (Concrete Engineering) A process in which thin flakes of matrix or mortar are broken away from concrete surface; caused by adherence of surface mortar-to forms as forms are removed, or to trowel or float in portland cement plaster. |
| Plane of Weakness | (Concrete Engineering) The plane along which a structure under stress will tend to fracture; may exist because of the nature of the structure and its loading, by accident, or by design. |