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Concrete
Referring to an artificial, stonelike material used for various structural purposes, that is made from the drying and hardening of cement.
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Tensile strength
Building materials; Concrete
Maximum unit stress which a material is capable of resisting under axial tensile loading, based on the cross sectional area of the specimen before loading.
Tendon
Building materials; Concrete
A steel element such as a wire, cable, bar, rod, or strand used to impart pre-stress to concrete when the element is tensioned.
Temper
Building materials; Concrete
The addition of water to the cement mix whether at the batch plant, during transit or at the jobsite to achieve the specified water to cement ratio.
Superplasticizer
Building materials; Concrete
A concrete admixture that makes wet concrete extremely fluid without additional water. These agents perform the same function as a plasticizer, but are composed of different materials.
Super flat floor
Building materials; Concrete
A concrete slab finished to a high degree of flatness according to recognised systems of measurement.
Sulphate resistance
Building materials; Concrete
Ability of cement paste, aggregate, or mixtures thereof to withstand sulphate attack.
Sulphate attack
Building materials; Concrete
Deleterious chemical and/or physical re-action between sulphates in ground water or soil and certain constituents in cement, which result in expansion and disruption of the concrete.
