Plastic Consistency (Concrete Engineering) Condition in which concrete, mortar, or cement paste will sustain deformation continuously in any direction without rupture.
Plasticity (Concrete Engineering) Property of freshly mixed concrete, cement paste or mortar which determines its ease of molding or resistance to deformation.
Portland Blast- slag Cement Furnace (ASTM C 595) (Concrete Engineering) The product obtained by intimately intergrinding or an intimate and uniform blending a mixture of granulated blast furnace slag and portland-cement clinker
Portland Cement (ASTM C 150) (Concrete Engineering) The product obtained by pulverizing clinker consisting essentially of hydraulic calcium silicates.
Portland-Pozzolan Cement (ASTM C 595) (Concrete Engineering) The product obtained by intimately intergrinding a mixture of portland-cement clinker and pozzolan, or an intimate and uniform blend of portland cement and fine pozzolan.
Pozzolan (ASTM C 618) (Concrete Engineering) A siliceous, or siliceous and aluminous material, which in itself possesses little or no cementitious value but will, in a finely divided form, such as a powder or liquid and in the presence of moisture, chemically react with calcium hydroxide at ordinary temperatures to form permanent, insoluble compounds possessing cementitious properties.
Preplaced Concrete (Concrete Engineering) Concrete manufactured by placing clean, graded coarse aggregate in a form and later injecting a portland cement-sand grout under pressure, to fill the voids.
Rebound (Concrete Engineering) Wet shotcrete or sand and cement which bounces away from a surface again at which pneumatically applied mortar is being projected.
Rock Pocket (Concrete Engineering) Area or portion of hardened concrete which is deficient in mortar and consisting primarily of coarse aggregate and open voids; caused by insufficient consolidation or separation during placement, or both; by leakage from form.
Sack (Concrete Engineering) A quantity of cement: 94 Ibs. in the United States, 87.5 Ibs. in Canada, for portland or air entraining portland cement, or as indicated on the sack for other kinds of cement.
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