PREPARING WET CONCRETE AND CONRETE TEST ON SITE

Preparing Wet Concrete

 What is concrete?
-Concrete is product consist of cement, sand and coarse aggregates and water which is there
are mix together in required proportion (ratio).
(Pictures of cement, sand, coarse aggregate (gravel) and water)
 Water/ Cement Ratio
 For normal mix, the amount of mixture for cement, sand and coarse aggregate is
measured by ratio of weight or ratio of volume.
 However, ratio of weight is most preferable. For example a mixture of 1:2:4 means 1 part
of cement, 2 parts of fine aggregate and 4 part of coarse aggregate.
 In addition, other examples of concrete mixture proportion used to produce the required
strength of concrete are 1:3:6, 1:1.5:3 and 1:4:8.
 Water use in concrete mixture is based on water/cement ratio which is it is a ratio of
weight of water to weight of cement. The chemical reaction between cement and water
causes concrete to harden.
 (Picture) Mix the cement with sand
 (Picture) Pour clean water on the mixture
 (Picture) Mix the mixture with the scoop
 (Picture) Add coarse aggregate
 (Picture) Mix the mixture with the scoop
 (Picture) Concrete are ready