Sentence examples for poor concrete from inspiring English sources
Its most famous feature, a kitschy bronze frieze that decorated its exterior facade, was replaced with a poor concrete replica.
The Big Dig has been marred by cost overruns, leaks, faltering slurry walls and criminal charges against employees of a supplier accused of supplying poor concrete.
This damage is attributed to poor concrete confinement in the web and boundaries, inadequate horizontal reinforcement detailing, and high axial loads.
The high corrosion rate observed at steel intersection points appeared to be due to the coupled effects of the corrosive binding wire material, the electrical connectivity, the reduced center-to-center (c/c) steel bar spacing and poor concrete microstructure at the rebar intersection.
Orton (2007) observed that negative effects of poor concrete surface preparation were reduced when 90° anchor spikes were used to anchor FRP for flexural strengthening.
Or, ask 100 people and you'll get a 100 different answers and leave some in the business wondering how to poor concrete or load a truck in a "professional" manner.
In Istanbul, where the population exceeds 10 million, estimates are that as much as 70percentt of the housing is potentially dangerous because it was built without proper supervision and using poor quality concrete.
On a street corner in the center of the city, two women -- apparently municipal workers -- were bent over a pile of sand and water mixing it for poor quality concrete to fix a manhole.
When the severity of environment is compounded with poor quality concrete and/or defective design and construction practices, the process of deterioration becomes interactive, cumulative and very rapid, and a cancerous growth that cannot be easily stopped.
This result was attributed to the increase of the corrosion concentration at the far end corners of the SCC beam, located far away from the casting point, due to poor quality concrete resulting from insufficient compaction.
The model was excited by two different real road surfaces: poor asphalt-concrete and good asphalt-concrete pavements, registered at the speed of 64 km/h and 90 km/h respectively.
