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. |