Sentence examples for concrete modification from inspiring English sources

It was also shown that the lightweight concrete modification factor in EC 2 is generally unconservative, while that in ACI 318-08 is conservative for all-lightweight concrete but turns to be unconservative for sand-lightweight concrete with a maximum aggregate size above 13 mm.

The obtained results here estimates that there is potential in improving the AIM samples to produce structural and insulating concrete through modification of storing and curing conditions to achieve the desired requirements of a thermal conductivity value of <0.1 W/ mK) with a corresponding compressive strength of >20 MPa.

This method has been widely used for determination of fracture energy of concrete with certain modification in the experimental setup (Lee and Lopez 2014).

Equations (7), (9) and (11) may therefore be used for the modeling of full stress strain relationship of recycled aggregates concrete with the modification of peak strain with the replacement ratio.

It becomes a key issue to decrease the air-void sizes and increase the nano-scaled pores in foamed concrete by the modification of pore-forming methods.

It occurs in the form of concrete and its modifications such as reinforced concrete, clay and asphaltic concrete.

Once the true impossibility of gene flow between the lineages is identified, more concrete discussions on modifications to the taxonomy of this species can be initiated.

Modification of concrete properties by the addition of appropriate materials is a popular field of concrete research.

The experimental study was based on the modification of concrete composition and the use of two types of release agents.

To solve structural problems such as cracks caused by plastic or hydraulic retraction and drying, the modification of concrete properties has been studied through the addition of polymer fibers.

In addition, as for the correlations between the water and air permeability coefficients and compressive strength, Fig. 16 shows that the higher the strength of the M concrete resulting from the modification treatment of the surface of low-quality recycled aggregates using an inorganic material (Sect. 4.3.1), the higher the water and air permeability resistances were (Hilsdorf and Kropp 1995).