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Kerbs In Roads | Types of Kerbs | Shape of Kerbs | Materials of Kerbs in Roads | Kerb Height | What Is Kerb Stone | Materials of Kerb Stone | Road Kerb Details

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Kerbs In Roads: The top of the kerbs should be 100 mm above the road surface. In transportation engineering, the radius kerbs are generally 780 mm in length. Also, Read: Bitumen Road Construction | Layers in a Bituminous Pavement | What Is Bituminous Macadam | Advantage Disadvantage of Bitumen Road.

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All About Transportation of Concrete | What Is Transportation of Concrete | Methods for Transportation of Concrete

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What Is Transportation of Concrete? Transportation of concrete is a process where we move freshly prepared concrete from one place to another place. The method of transportation of concrete depends upon the setting time of concrete, workability of the concrete, and the labour availability of the site, etc. Mortar Pan.

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What Is Road Pavement | Types of Road Pavements | Flexible Pavement | Rigid Pavement

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Information of Road Pavement. Roads play a vital role in the overall economic development of the country and the pavements are an important part of the road. So that it is important that the road pavements should be well designed and constructed so that they can allow the heavy movement of traffic through them.

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15 Different Types of Cement and Their Uses

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Road foundation, road paving, sidewalks, and tunnel construction. Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC): The main use of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) is in masonry work. The another important use of ordinary Portland cement is in construction site. #4. Monolithic concrete houses and concrete block houses.

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Extra Rapid Hardening Cement | Advantages & Disadvantages of Extra Rapid Hardening cement | Applications, Properties & Uses of Extra Rapid Hardening cement

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The use of ordinary portland cement in the construction required more time for hardening and removal of Formwork. The construction which is done by using Ordinary Portland cement generally takes 24 hours to set and hardened completely and it requires consistent curing. Time is directly connected to the cost of the project.

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All About Green Concrete | What Is Environmentally Friendly Concrete

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To make the system more sustainable, green concrete eco-friendly materials are used. The green concrete makes the structure very cheap by using waste materials as a component of green concrete. Green Concrete Materials. There are different types of materials are used for preparing green concrete, those are-.

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Segregation of Concrete- Causes and prohibition

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So basically concrete or Portland cement concrete is a compound material of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement or cement paste that become hardens over time. While handling, transporting and placing for the jerks and vibrations the cement-sand paste may gets separated from rough aggregate.