REPORT

DATEWISE

Day 1 24th May We have gone to batching plant and see all the mixer and lab (where test is conducted) RO plant (to purify water as there is some specification about the water mixing with concrete). Lab has 1. Impact test 2. Compressive test of grouting and concrete 3. Sieve analysis 4. Flakiness and elongation test 5. Moisture content 6. Cement test 7. Specific density test 8. Slump cone 9. Water test mainly sulphate and chloride Day 2 25th may As we did not have time to conduct the above listed test on that day so we again came to conduct the test on stone aggregate, cement, concrete and knowing some more about batching plant i.e. its manufacture name and its ideal capacity and its practical capacity and it s working. Some more about RO plant that from where is the source of water? And how it s get purified and made it usable. RO plant has one big tank where water store i.e. directly comes from ground and left in the tank so that the big sediments in the sand settle. That water is then pumped to two big black tank so that some fine sediments also settle now it is passed to sand filtration so that water get infiltrate and now passed to three membrane so to remove some of chemicals and in last water is passed through RO membrane to remove the soluble impurity from water and, then water is pumped to tank coved from top (so that impurity will not come in that tank. Now, we move to batching plant mixer where we have seen that there are two types of coarse aggregates are present 10 mm and 20 mm. Aggregates (coarse and fine) are carried to machine box with the help of hopper and conveyer belt. There is mechanism fitted that inside that machine box a automatic measurement box (which take that much quantity that are fed in that software) and that box take all the aggregates and transport to the mixer takes 20 sec to perform this task & cement comes from silo (cement in silo is transport from store room through pump) (There are 3 silo containing FLYASH, OPC (53), SLAG cement) (these cement are used for their requirements at the site) (fly ash is used to reduce the cost of construction) and required quantity are poured in that mixer and required water (which comes from that RO plant and in the last we use admixtures to maintain workability of cement, this admixture comes from the back of machine box and its dose generally .5 to 2 % of cement weight. Here they are using two types of admixture 1. Naphtha base 2. Poly carboxylic base Both has its own importance naphtha base are used in hot season as it controls over the evaporation rate of water in the concrete and of low cost, poly carboxylic base are used in winter season but it

should be used very carefully as minor change leads to segregation of concrete, but is used for higher strength concrete and its performance is better than naphtha base admixtures. Day 3 26th May Now we came to eastern side of main bridge where constructions of two types of foundations are still in operation. Today we only move here and there to examine how all foundations are made. The two types of foundations are 1. Open foundations 2. Well foundations. Today we see the reinforcement are tied in P-19 D/S open foundations and excavation (rock breaking) works are going in P-20 D/S & U/S. Rock is broken by needle which contains hydraulic hammer which strike at one place until the rock is not break down. After lunch we have given the Reinforcement details of P-19 D/S open foundations and asked to understand first by drawing and its all results should we matched at the site. At that we only go inside that open foundation and see the reinforcement. We have also seen the material used for maintaining clear cover of concrete. That cylinder is made of cement and 10mm coarse aggregate. They are very strong as they have to sustain heavy load of reinforcement and pouring concrete. Day 4 27th May We came and started discussion on that drawing and we got some results and again go that foundation to check our interpretation which we got from that reinforcement details drawing. We have seen the use of couplers (used to couple the reinforcement bar to maintain continuity of bar and to reduce the provision of lab lengthen bar again and again). In one circle we used once lap lengthen bar. Day 5 28th May We came to site and see the reinforcement of false wall of well foundation P-22 D/S. False walls are provided to retain earth mass so that it doesn t fall inside the well. When the required length of well staining is provided, but it has to further sink in the ground so we provide 150 mm thick false wall around the periphery of well so that it retains the side earth mass. In that false wall one vertical bars of 20mm dia is used and one circular of 16mm dia. We have learnt some important points about micro piling in the well foundation. Micro piles are also a kind of pile foundations but its diameter is smaller than 300mm, this micro piles are used to support the well while performing initial stage of bottom plugging. Day 6 30th May Today we have seen the whole process of micro piling in the well foundations P-22 D/S.