Title: 
            The Importance and Cost of Cement Testing
        
        
            Author(s): 
            W. Purves Taylor
        
        
            
                Publication: 
                Journal Proceedings
            
            
                Volume: 
                5
            
            
                Issue: 
                1
            
            
                Appears on pages(s): 
                210-213
            
            
                Keywords: 
                none
            
            
                DOI: 
                10.14359/16324
            
        
        
            Date: 
            1/1/1909
        
        
            Abstract:
            Although the importance of testing is generally recognized by the large consumers of cement, especially those engaged in constructing public works, its value, even to the present time, is not always apparent to the consumer of smaller quantities.  It must be remembered that cement is an artifical product made by mixing certain ingredients and then treating the mixture in a complex mechanical process, so that even if the greatest care is exercised as it is in the best plants, certain variations in quality must necessarily exist.