Concrete

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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Ottawa sand

Building materials; Concrete

A sand used as a standard in testing hydraulic cements by means of mortar test specimens. Sand is produced by processing silica rock particles obtained by hydraulic mining of the orthoquartzite ...

A mixture of cement, sand and water. When used in masonry construction, the mixture may contain masonry cement, or standard portland cement with lime or other ad-mixtures which may produce greater ...

Monolithic surface treatment

Building materials; Concrete

A concrete finish obtained by shaking a dry mixture of cement and sand on a concrete slab after strike-off, then troweling it into the surface.

Monolithic

Building materials; Concrete

A plain or reinforced mass of concrete cast as a single, one piece, integral structure.

Mixing speed

Building materials; Concrete

Rate of mixer drum rotation or that of the paddles in a pan, open-top, or trough type mixer, when mixing a batch; expressed in revolutions per minute (rpm) or in peripheral feet per minute of a point ...

Peeling

Building materials; Concrete

A process in which thin flakes of matrix or mortar are broken away from concrete surface. Caused by adherence of surface mortar to forms when forms are removed, or to trowel or float in portland ...