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BUILDING MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION - IV

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO CEMENT

AND CONCRETE (12)
 INTRODUCTION TO CEMENT AND CONCRETE

Cement and concrete as building materials. Brief history of their

use through examples. Composition, manufacture, properties,
types and uses of cement. Tests for cement. Introduction to
cement mortar and plastering and their composition. Concrete
and its composition. Mix design. Nature of aggregates for mix
including classification, sources, shape, size, grading, sampling
and analysis. Proportioning, water-cement ratio, workability.
Stages in concrete construction- formwork, mixing, placing,
curing. Cement and concrete finishes including roughcast, dry
dash, textured, stucco. Water proofing and damp proofing of
concrete.
 AGGREGATES: SIZE

• Fine Aggregate: lesser than 4.75 mm (and greater than

75 microns) (less than 75 microns is clay)
• 2.36,1.18 mm
• 600, 300, 150, 75 microns
• Coarse Aggregate: greater than or equal to 4.75 mm
• 4.75, 10, 12.5,16, 20, 40, 63 and 80 mm
CUBES SIDE [mm] SURFACES AREA [mm2] MULTIPLES

1 100 6 60 000 1

8 50 6 120 000 2
 SIDE AREA
CUBES SURFACE MULTIPLES
[mm] [mm2]

1 100 6 60 000 1

1000 10 6 600 000 10

 AGGREGATES: SHAPE

• Rounded
• Irregular or Partly Rounded
• Angular
• Flaky

ROUNDED FLAKY ANGULAR

 ANGULAR AGGREGATES

IRREGULAR AGGREGATES
 ATTENDANCE LINK

https://meet.google.com/ajy-fzbj-ezv