1
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Raw Material
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Test Certificates Available
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2
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Job Mix Formula
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Meets requirement in terms of
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Strength
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Workability
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Cohesiveness
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Place ability
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3
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Batching Plant
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Calibration done
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Yield checked
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Minimum 30 mixing
time
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Batch sheet
furnished
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4
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Transit mixers
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Reach site
agitation mode
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Drum rotated at full
speed for 20 before discharging
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No site addition
of water (Re-tempering) into drum
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Does chemical
admixture (re-dosing) and mix at full speed if workability is low
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Trip sheet
furnished and observations recorded
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5
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Concrete pump
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Sufficient
pipeline to place at required area
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Located at a
point accessible to transit mixer
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No addition of
water or slurry into the pump hopper (Re-tempering) once concrete pumping starts
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Agitator in
working condition
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6
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Sampling
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Concrete taken
from same vehicle and mixed well
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Workability in
terms of slump or flow checked
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Cube moulds are
at right angles and accurate
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Cube moulds cast
at location mutually agreed upon
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Required cube moulds
filled simultaneously in layers and compacted
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7
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Testing
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Slump or flow
test done randomly for field control
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Cubes tested for
compressive strength at laboratory
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Cube testing
machine is calibrated and in good condition
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Test report
furnished with slump observed in field and ultimate compressive strength at 7
& 28 days
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8
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Acceptability
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Intimated about
precaution to avoid plastic shrinkage cracks (Delayed finishing / Early
curing)
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Cement content
and type in accordance with job mix formula
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Workability as agreed
upon mutually
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Strength
>value agreed upon or characteristic strength, as appropriate
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Formwork, Rebar, Cover, Embedment, Pipeline Support, Compaction,
Finishing, Curing & Allied Works My Responsibility
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Thank you for this very helpful article. We are a ready mix concrete supplier company ourselves and we strive to formulate better mixing methods for better concrete. God bless!
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