DESIGN OF RC STUCTURES:

Basic Material Properties:

Workability: Workability means the property of freshly mixed concrete or mortar

which determined the ease and homogeneity with which it can be mixed, placed,
compacted and finished. Thus workability referred as mix ability, stability,
transportability, place ability, mobility, compact ability and finish ability of freshly
mixed concrete. It is varies from situation to situation, because the concrete with
poured in to large section with minimum reinforcement may not be workable in to
heavily reinforced thin section. There are various empirical test are available to
compute workability, but none of them shows satisfactory. Each of the tests
measures their own particular aspects. The empirical tests are (a) slump test, (b)
compacting factor test, (c) Vee-Bee test consistency and (d) flow test.